The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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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.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
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