Unfortunately, information about the author is unknown to us. But you can add it. Read full biography of David Ives →
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English... →
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic... →
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as... →
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.