TV, film, radio, advertising, gaming and other digital artforms would wither without theatre's contribution to training successive generations of actors, directors, playwrights and technicians.
There's also a new stage project with an old friend, director Carrie Cracknell, but she refuses to elaborate: "I've got to keep schtum!" She can't imagine a life without theatre, she says, but she has ambitions to do more film and TV.
Five theatres "without walls" – those without a permanent producing home – were also given a special mention: the National Theatre of Scotland, Paines Plough, Artichoke, Forest Fringe and the National Theatre's Watch This Space initiative.
There are three referral hospitals (without operation theatres for surgical interventions) and 42 health centres, serving a total population of approximately 538,000.
Without time, theatre work is based on formula, not on discovery.
'I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre.
Theatre construction flourished during the Hellenistic Age as never before in classical times, and no city of any size or reputation was without its theatre.
There have been triumphs aplenty at the RSC and the NT since they were in their revolutionary, epoch-making prime, but without them theatre, and especially classical theatre, would not be as we know it.
But he brings to the National exactly what is needed: a break from the idea that only Cambridge graduates can run the show, and a touch of that unpredictability without which theatre, as a medium, will ossify.
Down the street from the RNC in Cleveland was an event without the theatre of politics, protests or Donald Trump.
