The dramatist

Every university student will stand during his university studies before a fundamental problem of writing the diploma thesis. It may be waiting for you this year, or five years from today, but you...

The best was last weekend, because there was a blizzard here, and I got myself to the bat matinee because I figured all the actors were there, I should be there too, and it was just wonderful. Those...

It’s still very hard. I mean, even when you look at the Broadway season, I mean, the theatre isn’t so much about Broadway anymore. It’s really about plays that are done all over the country in...

And just to move on for a second, to Lettice. Lettice and Lovage, it seems to me that the third time I felt a terrific social response to my work is in the particularly in the stirring, the immense...

Sometimes it’s hard for me to work at home, because my phone rings a lot, and I’m easily distracted, so I tend to work in libraries a lot. I used to…when I lived here, I worked on 79th Street, oddly...

I went up to the Fox office, and there was a big fat man there, behind a big desk, with a big cigar. He didn't ask me if I'd ever been to California, which I hadn't, or if...

The scene I like most in the movie, perhaps it was the only scene I really like in the movie, fully, is the confrontation scene when Mozart is in bed dictating the "Confutatis" to...

Now in Proposals I’m writing about a black couple in 1954 just prior to the Civil Rights, and these are by no means Uncle Tom kind of people. The woman especially is very enlightened, because she is...

Atmospherically it’s extraordinary. It does create the atmosphere of central Europe, very much in its intrigue and its gossip and its sordidness. It’s not all that, sort of mushwa acting, and snuff...