If Internships Go Away, What’s Next for the Next Generation?

AMERICAN THEATRE: 2020 seemed to break the American theatre wide open, gutting budgets and salary lines while claiming space for new forms and underrepresented voices. And so the most vulnerable members of the theatre economy’s labor force (read: the young, the inexperienced, and the contingent) finally got their day in court, with a chorus of voices, including mine, calling for higher wages, better working conditions and sunnier employment outcomes for entry-level workers and the fleet of interns who largely function as such.