I see a lot of resonance between hospitality and theatre—specifically nonprofit; meaning, not Broadway money!—the industry I work in. Especially for young artists and/or arts administrators, there can be an unspoken expectation that experience is money; that you need to "put in your dues" and work impossible hours in order to prove that you *are* willing to sacrifice your life to this higher cause. (I have a lot of thoughts about how archaic ideas about starving artists and "passion" are mobilized now to justify wage exploitation!)
For audiences, I wonder: How can we inform them about the real costs of this work, when already the cost (ticket prices) is so high? There are ticket discounts out there, which is great! But I suspect that the people who know about them are already people who love theatre. Putting "this work is hard" in a show program isn't exactly the pitch...
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I see a lot of resonance between hospitality and theatre—specifically nonprofit; meaning, not Broadway money!—the industry I work in. Especially for young artists and/or arts administrators, there can be an unspoken expectation that experience is money; that you need to "put in your dues" and work impossible hours in order to prove that you *are* willing to sacrifice your life to this higher cause. (I have a lot of thoughts about how archaic ideas about starving artists and "passion" are mobilized now to justify wage exploitation!)
For audiences, I wonder: How can we inform them about the real costs of this work, when already the cost (ticket prices) is so high? There are ticket discounts out there, which is great! But I suspect that the people who know about them are already people who love theatre. Putting "this work is hard" in a show program isn't exactly the pitch...