Change Quote by Rebecca West

In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm…

— Stephen Karam

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them,…

— Arthur Miller

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight,…

— A. R. Gurney

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

— Steven Berkoff

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

I'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly engaged: the…

— Lynn Nottage

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let…

— John Guare

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything…

— Alexis Taylor

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant…

— Frank Zappa

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements…

— Peter Maxwell Davies