The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
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.
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
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.
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.