Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
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.
Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
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