Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.