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Theresa Rebeck
American
Playwright
Born:
Feb 19
,
1958
Character
People
Think
Time
Work
You
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I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.
Theresa Rebeck
Calm
Down
Panic
Write
Because
Calm Down
Lot
Start
The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.
Theresa Rebeck
Work
You
Writing
Mercy
Own
Control
Stage
Unless
Television
Distressing
No Control
Running
More
Gives
Over
Communal
Your
Show
Whoever
Amount
Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.
Theresa Rebeck
Dreams
Humanity
Humor
Spielberg
Voice
Write
Had
He
Smash
Read
Wanted
Decided
Story
Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy.
Theresa Rebeck
Crazy
You
People
Nothing
Telling
Sounds
I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.
Theresa Rebeck
Prolific
Write
Part
Like
Am
Who
It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.
Theresa Rebeck
Mystery
Come
Ideas
Sort
Where
Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.
Theresa Rebeck
You
People
Comedy
Some People
Big
Think
Pandering
Other
Say
Would
Some
About
Could
Argue
Audience
Audiences
Appeals
Wide
Think Big
It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be.
Theresa Rebeck
World
Responsibility
Way
About
Write
Should
Plays
One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.
Theresa Rebeck
World
Television
Bizarre
One Thing
Find
Neurotic
Sitcom
Thing
I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.
Theresa Rebeck
Problems
Looking
Think
Difficulty
Our
Cultural
I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.
Theresa Rebeck
Proud
Very
American
Being
Ashamed
I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work.
Theresa Rebeck
Work
Good
Experience
People
Enthusiastic
About
Had
Doing
Were
Really
I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.
Theresa Rebeck
Theatre
Believe
Our
Relevant
Remain
New
Major
Sincerely
Institutions
American
York
New York
Should
Producing
Presenting
Plays
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.
Theresa Rebeck
Time
World
Live
Think
See
About
More
Delighted
Vastly
Inspiring
New
Audiences
Hear
Surprising
Moment
Now
Challenging
Plays
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
Theresa Rebeck
Life
People
Space
Musical
Ways
Classes
Make
So Many People
Different
Converge
Who
Many
Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
Theresa Rebeck
Life
Character
Try
Out
Rarely
Make
Creature
Pull
So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.
Theresa Rebeck
Doubt
Broadway
Case
Having
Does
Am
Report
Any
Suck
Play
Here
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.
Theresa Rebeck
Culture
Women
Men
Older
Babes
Films
Our
Distorted
About
Objects
Allen
Sees
Dates
Make
Still
Subjects
Women Are
Chick
Gets
Woody
Woody Allen
Movies
Them
Fun
Media
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.
Theresa Rebeck
Art
People
Recession
Say
Those
High
Worthwhile
Would
Postmodern
Absolutely
Argue
Absolutely Not
Foot
Piece
Likes
Make
Sure
Surely
Does
Am
Traffic
Lot
Person
Get
Even
Museum
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
Theresa Rebeck
Health
Theatre
Playwright
Health Insurance
Makes
Insurance
Than
America
Any
Decent
Average
Less
Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.
Theresa Rebeck
Theatre
Problem
Looking
Become
Playwrights
Enough
Tell
Allowing
Towards
Over
New
Itself
America
American
York
Irrelevant
New York
Being
Them
Paid
Plays
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.
Theresa Rebeck
Theatre
Care
Playwrights
Our
Way
Relevant
Only
Take
Take Care
Contemporary
Produce
Lively
Need
Plays
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.
Theresa Rebeck
Day
Happy
Every Day
Husband
Become
Healthy
Every
Kids
Hoping
Human
Decent
Sensational
Human Beings
Them
Working
Help
Who
Beings
Raised
Two
I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.
Theresa Rebeck
Life
People
Spent
Pretty
Know
Most
Same
Done
Theater
Interesting
Interesting People
Working
Whole
The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
Theresa Rebeck
Death
Time
Crazy
Destruction
Comedy
Girl
Myth
Big
Down
Everybody
Danger
See
Total
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Had
Houses
Nonsense
Go
Were
America
Burning
Theater
Centuries
Used
Shows
Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.
Theresa Rebeck
Space
Gathering
Place
Theater
Public
Spectacular
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