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'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.