I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse..

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those m….

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….

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

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart..

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 ….

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this..

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

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..

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these ….

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..

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes..

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet….