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I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: America Create Feels Like Looks Smells Theater Want

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Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Address Communities Here Know Should Stories Theater Why

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Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Back Broadway Close Course Hundreds Opened Productions Season Through Up Very Vital Were Year

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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Does History Intrigued Love Matter People Subjects I Love

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Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

~George C. Wolfe

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I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: About After Anybody Best Creative Creative People Did Fear Gone Grave Keep Long Mantle Operating People Pictures Remember Stories Tell Them Think Those Why Will Write I Think

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When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

~George C. Wolfe

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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Absent Before Black Come Connection Cultural Culture Earth Exterior Form Had Jelly Mining Musicals People Remained Strip Viewed Where

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'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Any Artists Before Black Celebrated Embody Fully Jelly Joy Lives Majesty Many More Musical Own Purity Qualities Same Than Unable Who

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The best of any artist is in their art.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Any Art Artist Best

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: September 23rd, 1954

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