We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.