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 in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.
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 … - David Ives
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 …
- David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. - David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
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… - David Ives
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…
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. - David Ives
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 think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. - David Ives
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. - David Ives
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. - David Ives
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
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… - David Ives
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…
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. - David Ives
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
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