Playwright Quotes

We decided to look back at some of our distinguished alumni playwrights, and picked a play from each of them. - Ken McCoy

This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. - Richard Eder

This is a play about what happens when the whole world comes into the kitchen. This is about a family in the midst of a lot of problems in the contemporary world: Crime, police corruption, family challenges, lack of money, family separation. And, of course, that sounds rather dramatic but like so many contemporary playwrights, Walker deals with these problems of today in a very absurdist comic way. - Dean Yohnk

This is a monumental undertaking. Chris has quite a potential as a playwright. He'll speak a language to contemporary situation. His voice will resonate with his fellow students. - Brian Robertson

They were totally enthusiastic. It really put the play in playwright. - Casey Kurtti

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction. - George Bernard Shaw

The playwright argues that we live in a culture of victimization, sometimes, in which people want to dwell in the trauma, in the traumatic event that has happened to them instead of truly confronting it and moving on. - Jonathon Awori

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. - Robert Anderson

The long-standing partnership between the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the American Theatre Critics Association has recognized some of today's greatest writers, and helped identify the great playwrights of tomorrow. We're delighted to help support the unique telling of tales on the American stage. - Jim Steinberg