"Television has lapped theater in a lot of storytelling techniques — realism, depth of character, complicated storytelling…What we have that’s different in the theater is the audience in the space with us. And I’m not interested in ignoring the space between us."
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On how theater differs from television in “Playwright Kristoffer Diaz steps into the ring” in the Los Angeles Times (2011 Aug 21)
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