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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

Adam Rapp

You can’t run forever.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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Anand Thakur
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

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