I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.