The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible s…

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

When I look back at Stairs to the Roof... I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. Un…

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

There's a kind of silliness in the theater about what one contributes to a show. The producer obviously contributes the money... but must the actor contribute …