Jaz Asks..."What is theater?"

What is theater:

Biologically speaking?
Theologically speaking?

Biologically theater is ( along with all art) the DNA of species memory.

Theologically theater is God's way of saying "This is how you look to me"

Neither God nor biology intended the gift of theater exclusively or
expressly for New Yorkers.

Talent is not a geographical phenomenon.

I put this into some lyrics once:

I pay my union dues
I read that Broadway news
I'm a natural ham
Still here I am
Singing those Manhattan Blues.

Jaz Dorsey
Dramaturg
The African American Playwrights Exchange