Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

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

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

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.

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.

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?