American - Director | 1966 -
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
Diane Paulus
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The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
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The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.
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I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that audience is going to connect with.
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I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.
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I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
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Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.
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I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.
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My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
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At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
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I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
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