The three state theaters receive national subsidies of some $200 million a year.

The company would like nothing better than to get out of the State Theater.

But now they will share the risk with us, because we are paying them more than the state theaters pay.

The plays in the state theaters, he said, are deeply conservative.

Something interesting happened, however, on the way to the State Theater.

Most have basic connections with one of the state theaters.

From 1908 to 1910, he directed at the state theater of Bremen.

But there were only two companies at the State Theater, with full control and no competition.

The two companies performed together at the State Theater in 1971.

It is the only state theatre to have its own troupe of actors.