Long story short: The entertainment theaters provided was generally well respected and a popular pass time. Remember plays in one form or the other had been around since ancient times .

However, the genre of productions the theatre showed usually determined the class of people who would be in attendance.

The working class enjoyed “Variety shows” , which we now would call a Musical( which is disputed because music is used in musicals as a means of progressing the story and or giving insight to what the characters think while the earliest examples of using music in theatre where people singing popular folk music between scenes and not actually sung by the actors themselves ) and shows that were centered around comedy. The theatre that showed this kind of shows generally catered to these markets and usually had lower production value.

The middle and higher classes usually went to theaters that had Drama and classics such a Shakespeare. These theaters were usually much nicer and the production values of shows were superior.

To gear this towards your questions.

Lower class people wouldn’t find the productions higher class people enjoyed entertaining. And the higher class looked down if the types of productions the lower classes enjoyed.