I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.
From Theresa Rebeck
A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!
I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.
The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men.
Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.
People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.
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.
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.
Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
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