Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

All you have to do is look at the textbooks, ... They are being rewritten page by page, Hubble image after Hubble image.

There's a myriad of things that could be done.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.