When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.