Lucy Alibar Quotes

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

I don't see enough theatre.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

The Huntington Theatre has a really fine reputation. I was keenly aware of how well thought of they are and that they develop and support new plays.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.