All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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.
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
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.
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.