For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.