So I read this article in the paper this morning and I tried to find it online so I could share it with you guys and I was able to find this link which allowed me to view the entire article so hopefully it works the same for you. Anyways, basically it’s an article talking about how Boston is becoming more of a place to forge a career rather than just being the early stepping-stones that jumpstart it. A lot of people talked about how they would much rather stay here in Boston than move on to New York City and it’s now really possible to make it their long-term professional home. Which is something they said you really didn’t see possible as early as just a decade ago. I thought it was really cool how one of the girls talked about how it’s become a special community of artists here doing great work even though they might not have the big budgets you’d see on Broadway. I just feel that it was always the general idea among the pubic (and maybe this is just where I grew up) that making it in theatre equals New York, but that’s not really the case anymore and it’s nice to know that others are taking notice too. So I really like this article and I hope you guys check it out.
I read this article too and was planning on posting it here. I totally agree that Boston is becoming more of a place to have a theatre career rather than just to start one before moving to New York. When I was just working on Titus Andronicus we talked a lot about how there are tons of people around our age graduating and wanting to stay in Boston to do theatre and that's awesome. Also it's not just where you're from that everyone thinks if you want to do theatre you have to go to New York, when I go home I still get people asking "so you're a theatre major, when are you moving to New York?" I'm glad I don't have to go to New York to make a career in theatre if I don't want to.
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