Assembly-Line Theatre – How American Theatre Is Dominated

“The business of theatre educators is to export a ‘quality product’ that will be accepted by New York headquarters. Once there, if the product is ‘lucky,’ it is plucked from the big conveyor belt and shipped to the specific theatre that needs that particular product, wherever those theatres are. Once that product is plucked and successfully consumed at its final destination, the call is communicated back to the student’s originating theatre department to create another one like him or her.”