"Oskar Eustis" is the Artistic Director at The Public Theater at Astor Place and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country.

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The thing that has been the most surprising to me has been the immense good will I have felt from the theatrical community.

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.

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

This is going to be a real experiment. It's going to be a glamorous, high-end benefit fund-raising event in the best and highest tradition of New York fund-raising events. At the same time, it's going to be accessible to a broad range of people.

It's really a mixture of what George was working on and developing before he left and what I picked up and have been working on developing, including plays I have brought in.

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

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

It's attitudes like this that made us lose the war!

John was an incredibly important writer, both in his own right, and as a leading advocate for writers and artists with disabilities. It's a terrible, terrible loss.