Will Theatre Ever Again Be At The Center Of Our Culture? Wrong Question

“[Stage plays] once entertained the tired businessman, and also somehow managed to stir hearts and minds with piercing social critique. Eugene O’Neill made the cover of Time four times in his career! How will we ever get back to that halcyon age, which was — well, when was it, exactly?” People have been asking that question at least since the advent of moving pictures, and it may not even be an apt question about, as Rob Weinert-Kendt puts it, “an art form expressly built to die and be reborn.” – American Theatre