People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.
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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.
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.
The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.
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