"Each play is different from every other play in a way that every movie is not different from every other movie. 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."
-- David Ives
Sure Thing PWYF 2003,
The Philadelphia PWYF 2003,
Arabian Nights PWYF 2005
"All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have."
-- John Patrick Shanley
The Lonely Impulse of Delight PWYF 2004,
Pulitzer Prize for Doubt
"A lot of people say theater needs to be metaphoric or poetical - non-naturalistic - which I think is a mistake. You have to embrace the notion of theatricality, and there are many ways to do it, but for me theatrical means strong."
-- Therese Rebeck
Katie and Frank PWYF 2009
"Changes take lifetimes, but in the moment when the artist has turned things upside down, maybe something has shaken out that helps you and the audience think differently."
-- Anna Deavere Smith
Aye, Aye, I'm Integrated PWYF Greenwich 2007
"Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger, across a crowded room."
-- Oscar Hammerstein II
South Pacific PWYF 2010
