“Joss missed the acting that he had not done since high school, so he started hosting informal Sunday night Shakespeare readings at his home with some of the writers and cast members of Buffy and Angel.” (1)

“Some people get more big roles, some people don’t want them. Some people are terrified by the prospect and refuse to come. I try to shift it around, try to make everybody do spear-carrying duty. It’s extraordinary. More than putting on makeup for three hours and dancing around like an idiot, that really gives you the feeling of being inside a piece, really acting. It gives you perspective, which is good to have. It’s not good that I should think of myself as a TV star, because I’m not. But it is good to be in touch with what an actor goes through, because it makes you better.” (2)

“We just sit around read a play. There was a play where James [Marsters] had to sing and play on his guitar. We all have fun, we have a great time.” (3)

“As long as I’ve been on the show we’ve been having Shakespeare readings where everyone - producers, actors, everybody - would show up at Joss’s house and we’d read Othello or Romeo and Juliet. I got to play Romeo opposite Michelle Trachtenberg’s Juliet, which was so much fun! Everyone was asking, “Should we let James do it? No, we’ll let Amber do it - she’s sexually benign.” And then afterwards, we would all just sing. We’d have [executive producer] Marti Noxon sing, and I’d sing, and Tony’d sing - Tony Head’s an amazing singer - we even got Michelle and Mere Smith, who’s one of the writers on Angel, singing.” (4)