If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.
The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
There's little money in theatre.
