By Lydia Stryk. To the culture at large, theater is an oddity that is thought (if it is thought of at all) to hold some exceptional status. How its artists subsist is a bit of a riddle to outsiders who assume it must have something to do with our propensity for suffering. Theater artists don't hold real jobs or produce necessities and have no influence on the GDP or the nation's productivity by any measurable standar…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:44AM on January 18, 2014