A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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.
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