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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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 our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
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.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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