Because Quote by Lynn Nottage

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

— Stella Adler

The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big…

— T. Harv Eker

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most…

— Brooks Atkinson

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

— John Pinette

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to…

— John Patrick Shanley

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the…

— Jock Sturges