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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

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.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.