Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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