It's really important that those two (Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights) are both under the same umbrella,

It's really important that those two [Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights] are both under the same umbrella, ... By putting Shakespeare there, you are holding him up as a model of how big a playwright's ambitions can be.

John was a brilliant playwright, a tireless advocate for the disabled, a profound thinker, and a warm and generous friend. His disability gave him a powerful understanding of how it requires a community to make us fully human.

it is straight out of its time, from the rock music to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment.

If you're willing to go with its [the show's] particular charm, it is magical,

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?