In 2008, the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation studied money spent for off-off Broadway productions. The results point to a real problem for New York's indie theater scene. More than one-third of all the dollars spent to make our kind of theater were spent on space rentals. We can't imagine that number has fallen in the last five years.
This is disturbingly unbalanced and it needs to be rectified somehow. We in the indie scene need to rectify it, otherwise we are just a bunch of coal miners owing our souls to the company store.
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Rise up theater workers of New York! Rise up and join together. We can bargain collectively. We must bargain collectively.
This is disturbingly unbalanced and it needs to be rectified somehow. We in the indie scene need to rectify it, otherwise we are just a bunch of coal miners owing our souls to the company store.
<Oh no! Bob is humming "The Internationale" -- "Oh, I feel the red in me a'risin'!">
Rise up theater workers of New York! Rise up and join together. We can bargain collectively. We must bargain collectively.