HOLLYWOOD STARS AND THE THEATER.

HOLLYWOOD STARS AND THE THEATER. I revere Alan Ayckbourn, but I disagree strongly with this article in which Ayckbourn claims that Hollywood and television actors who are poor theater actors are destroying British theater. Anything to build an audience I say. I think Ethan Hawke is a better movie actor than a stage actor, but he gets the job done as a stage actor. He helped build audiences for Kevin Kline’s HENRY V and I believe that he has been very helpful in getting Stoppard’s COAST OF UTOPIA mounted in New York. I wish that there were more actors who moved between stage and Hollywood.