Playwrights Quotes


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. - Keith Powell


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


All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. - Unknown


All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz


[Series with political content tend to age badly, and Cowen and Lipman know a thing or two about dated television -- the men, who began their work and home lives together in 1971 at a playwrights' conference, wrote An Early Frost, the first TV movie about AIDS, which aired in 1985.] You never know if something's going to hold up or fall apart in 20 years... It will mark a certain point in time. I hope as time goes on it will be seen as accurate. - Ron Cowen


[On the other hand, Lions says, big names can be a boon to playwrights as well as producers. Broadway] has lost a lot of talented writers to Hollywood... to take a chance on theater. That's how it's done in London. In an ideal world, young writers could move back and forth between New York and Los Angeles. - Julia Roberts


(Playwrights) now are writing for sitcoms because they get a lot more money, and the quality doesn't have to be that good... But, boy, some of these older pieces like (those by) (George S.) Kaufman and (Moss) Hart slay me with how well they're written and constructed. - Douglas Stark


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