I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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.
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
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.
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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.
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