Quotes by Oskar Eustis

“Its been the heart of what Ive done for about 25 years,”

“Its really important that those two (Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights) are both under the same umbrella,”

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

“Its 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,”

“Its attitudes like this that made us lose the war!”

“This is going to be a real experiment. Its 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, its going to be accessible to a broad range of people.”

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

“Its 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 playwrights ambitions can be.”

“If youre willing to go with its [the shows] particular charm, it is magical,”

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