Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.