There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.