When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.
Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.
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.
Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.