Oskar Eustis Quotations

John was a brilliant playwright, a tireless advocate for the disabled, a profound thinker, and a warm and generous friend. His disability gave him a powerful understanding of how it requires a community to make us fully human.

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.

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

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,

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

It's been the heart of what I've done for about 25 years,

I really admired the play. When we had a sudden opportunity, we decided to do it. It doesn't just recount recent history. It raises larger issues that are not in the news. How is power used? How do decisions get made?