If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
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.
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.
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.
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.
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.
