Posted: 4/12/18 at 5:19pm
The age-old "theatre is dead" moaning is on again, I see. Pretentious douchebags have been whining the same thing for nearly a century (probably the very same ones!) and yet, it's never been true. Theatre isn't dead because a few narrow-minded curmudgeons don't get what they want. Curmudgeons that don't seem to add any value to our culture. Does that mean they're dead, too? Theatre is not dead. Broadway has some shows these sourpusses don't want to see. There is nothing more to it than that. And that is okay because that is the history of Broadway and the history of theatre.
General rule of thumb: If someone says "theatre is dead" and you are still able to buy tickets to a play or musical, Broadway or elsewhere, then you know that person is full of sh*t. You don't need to hear how they define or quantify "theatre" because it will be pretentious blathering (usually using words like "taste" and "class" and "vulgar" to assert their self-ascribed superior status). How they choose to define "theatre" is absolutely irrelevant to anyone other than themselves.
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