I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.