Coming home for me isn’t, like, one family dinner. It’s about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85? Stephen Karam Read Quote
To be totally honest, I thought I would have a Broadway debut in the distant, distant future, maybe in my 60s or 70s when somebody revived one of my off-Broadway plays with a star. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I like creating the illusion that suddenly I’ve just done five things at once. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I’ve always viewed ‘Sons of the Prophet’ as the first part of a larger trilogy – not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family. Stephen Karam Read Quote
With ‘The Humans,’ I’ve found that because it’s related to very familiar forms – the family play and the thriller, almost a genre-collison play – some people want it to be one or the other. Either less dark and more of a family comedy or a full-fledged thriller with blood and ghosts jumping out of closets. Everyone’s taste is different. Stephen Karam Read Quote
Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it’s not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it’s your baby, and you know what’s best. Stephen Karam Read Quote
In writing ‘The Humans,’ I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture. Stephen Karam Read Quote
I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Miss Saigon,’ were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ that my sister was in. Stephen Karam Read Quote
