What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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.
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.