Response to "In the Intersection"

HowlRound: I have spent my professional life in intersections of the commercial and not-for-profit theater. I started work in the mid-seventies when the not-for-profit theater and the commercial theater were quite distinct from each other. I worked for a service organization that provided technical assistance to emerging not-for-profit theaters. The consultants talked about subscriptions and development and boards and mission. Commercial theater was only relevant as an example of what these not-for-profits weren’t. Then I worked at the Yale Rep and then Manhattan Theatre Club for more than twenty years and observed firsthand not-for-profit and commercial engagement in many guises.