Audience Quote by Robert Dessaix

As with Shakespeare, we keep revisiting Chekhov.

— Geraldine James

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

— Harvey Korman

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert…

— Stephen Karam

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about…

— Tom Stoppard

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me…

— Neil Simon

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my…

— Gene Wilder

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty…

— David Mamet