Playwrights Quotes

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

I`m no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can`t possibly make complex characters. I`m bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.

As far as dramas are concerned, it`s considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today`s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

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

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

Athol Fugard is one of my all-time favorite playwrights. It is an absolute honor that he would grant us the rights to Exits and Entrances ahead of many other more established theatre companies. In my mind, the best way to return this compliment is to devote our entire season to him. I see The Island as sort of a companion piece.