Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
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.
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
I think there is no world without theatre.