Which category of theatre includes big musicals as well as comedies and dramas that are intended to be entertaining AND profitab
le? They also contain safe themes, plenty of laughs, and spectacle designed to appeal to a majority of people, thereby filling lots of seats and ideally making lots of money. Hint: Think Disney
In some cases, and according to several authors and scholars, the commercial theatre is so appealing to keep the audience of some groups that it doesn't have an identity. It's a theater devoted exclusively to entertainment, to make you laugh or cry, but superficially and that does not bring in its ideals, in its goals, what was important to the Greeks, social welfare.
