It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

Arthur Miller
October 17, 1915
New York, NY, USA

So we’re probably in an art that is — not dying. I don’t think it’s ever going to die because it’s so simple: all you need is a board and a man standing on it and a woman saying something interesting. You don’t need machines. But it is going to have to develop a different way of production. The problem is not that people can’t write plays anymore, the problem is that the audience’s relationship to the theater has simply dribbled away. And the playwright is nothing without his audience. He is one of the audience who happens to know how to speak. We are a kind of church. And if the parishioners are no longer interested in that church, you know what happens. It becomes a garage or a grocery store.

“Theatre,” by Arthur Miller
New York Times, Sunday, January 17, 1993