The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.