Do You Read More Plays or See More Plays?

I find that I read far more scripts than go to live productions, mainly because I go to ISU, which has an enormous catalog of scripts in the library, as well as a large private script library in the Theatre Department. I try to see live productions whenever I can, but I experience most new plays by reading them, rather than seeing them.

Do you read published scripts, or do you just see the productions?

I definitely see more than I read these days, but before I lived in NY I used to check out tons of plays from my local library and read them. It's a great way to get well-versed in theatre history for free. I basically just made a list of every famous play that I had heard of but never seen or read, and I started knocking them out one by one. Then, when I came across one that I really liked, I would look into other plays by the same playwright.