New Forms of Entertainment and Theater Attendance

When comparing numbers, the three percent of Americans who go to the theater do not compare to the once vast numbers from years past. While many people think that Americans no longer go to the theater because it is too expensive, I believe that it is also the many new forms of entertainment readily available that people would rather spend their money on then the theater. <Tab/>The entertainment industry is …

…themselves, the amount of people that were once mainly into theater are now divided up into different niches that entertain them the most. <Tab/>Overall I would argue that it is not that people are no longer interested in theatre, it is that they are more interested in the new forms of entertainment that now take the place of theatre because they were not yet available when the theatre was thriving.