Playwrights Quotes

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is. - Rich Smith

We wanted to put the focus on what City Theatre does best -- the unknown, the original and the fresh. We particularly want to develop American playwrights, all of whom are in need of cultivation and homes. ... These are three fantastic writers at different points in their careers. - Tracy Brigden

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

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

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 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

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

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. - Gavin Newsom