Application Quote by Mike Nichols

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

— Richard Greenberg

“by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past”

— Anonymous

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

— Andre Aciman

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.

— Lynn Nottage

“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels too serious.”

— Ken Breniman

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

— Tom Stoppard

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens,…

— Brian Moore

I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called…

— F. Murray Abraham

“Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition,…

— Sidney W. Mintz

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

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

— Marsha Norman