American - Playwright | February 19, 1958 -
Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.
Theresa Rebeck
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People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.
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Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal.
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There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
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It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.
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I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.
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Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
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So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.
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Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.
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Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women.
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Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.
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Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
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