This may be the best idea I've heard of in a long time
Ten Things Theaters Need to Do To Save Themselves
5.Offer child care. Sunday school is the most successful guerrilla education program in American history. Steal it. People with young children should be able to show up and drop their kids off with some young actors in a rehearsal room for two hours of theater games. The benefits: First, it will be easier to convince the nouveau riche (many of whom have young children) to commit to season tickets. Second, it will satisfy your education mission (and will be more fun, and therefore more effective, for the kids). Third, it will teach children to go to the theater regularly. And they'll look forward to the day they graduate to sitting with the grown-ups. Getting dragged to the theater will shift from punishment to reward.
Such an interesting article and really fights to the core of the problems with modern day theater. I agree with a lot of it, and disagree also with parts. Noone can produce a season of only new premires. Let's be smart. If every theaters every season was all new plays, what would become of the old gems. There needs to be balance.
Here's a fun followup article from a DC blogger.
5.Offer child care. Sunday school is the most successful guerrilla education program in American history. Steal it. People with young children should be able to show up and drop their kids off with some young actors in a rehearsal room for two hours of theater games. The benefits: First, it will be easier to convince the nouveau riche (many of whom have young children) to commit to season tickets. Second, it will satisfy your education mission (and will be more fun, and therefore more effective, for the kids). Third, it will teach children to go to the theater regularly. And they'll look forward to the day they graduate to sitting with the grown-ups. Getting dragged to the theater will shift from punishment to reward.
Such an interesting article and really fights to the core of the problems with modern day theater. I agree with a lot of it, and disagree also with parts. Noone can produce a season of only new premires. Let's be smart. If every theaters every season was all new plays, what would become of the old gems. There needs to be balance.
Here's a fun followup article from a DC blogger.