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" Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members. "

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" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "

Theresa Rebeck

Experience

Good

People

" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "

" 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. "

" I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. "

" The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice. "

" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "

Theresa Rebeck

Write

Who

" The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue. "

" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "

" Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible. "

" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

" 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. "

Theresa Rebeck

Women

Movies

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.' "

" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "

" I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much. "

" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior. "

" I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "

" I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure. "

Theresa Rebeck

Structure

Seem

" When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.' "

Theresa Rebeck

Myself

Think

" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "

" Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile. "

" I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York. "

" I'm an impatient person. "

Theresa Rebeck

Impatient

Person

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "