About Quote by Terrence McNally

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

— Sam Shepard

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the…

— Laura Wade

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

— Katori Hall

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new…

— Stephen Daldry

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater…

— Rachel Bloom

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to…

— Beau Willimon

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

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work.…

— Tony Kushner

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard