The dramatist

Well, I used to go to musicals a lot. I mean, my par…my mother took me to shows every Saturday, because I went to dancing school at the June Taylor School of the Dance, and then they’d pick me up and...

I like plays. It’s just hard, you know. It’s very hard to have a life just in the theatre these days. I’ve written for public television. I think of myself as the queen of the three figure deal, but,...

It’s on Central Park South across from Rumplemeyer’s, and one is Lillian Cornwall, an executive, and actually what’s interesting is that Lillian Cornwall, that character has a lot to do with Sara...

I mean, I think one is very lucky to have a life in the theatre, and you never know, you know (knocks on wood, laughs), you just donít know. But I still loveÖthis is why I went to the theatre during...

It is. It’s a story about a girl from the Midwest who came East, and that was deliberate. I remember reading Fitzgerald talking about people from the Midwest who came East, and in fact, it’s about...

Because I always thought it was interesting that, if this was a TV miniseries, and we had a reunion ten years later, you know somebody would be a drug addict, somebody would have stole somebody’s...

Well, my friend Betsy Carter used to be the editor of New York Woman, and I wrote for her, and I love Betsy, and also, because plays take me…I don’t do that many plays, you know. It’s once every...

Amadeus is not an objective documentary biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For a start, he never called himself Amadeus. He signed himself, when he did, Amadé, which is, you know, is the French...

I particularly wanted to rewrite the end. You see, the problem with the Mozart-Salieri story is that there is no end, in life. One survived the other by thirty-two years. It's not much of a...

His name was Shimon Shliffer. My mother, I think, lost his plays, which upsets me because I think someone will lose my plays, my niece or somebody will, but he was. Yeah, you know, it’s funny, these...