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Curtain Coming Down on Theater?: The U.S. theater is superficial, says Arthur Miller, who’s in London for rehearsals of his play “The Price,’ which opens next month. “Theaters in the States are finding it very difficult to continue because they feel they have got to constantly excite audiences in a most superficial way,” the 74-year-old playwright told reporters. “In Britain, the only reason you have not gone up the flue is that there are some subsidies for major theaters in many parts of the country. If that stops or goes down sufficiently you will be thrown on to the market and that cannot support theater because costs are too high.”