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With perfect timing, the Chicago theatrosphere is also talking about free theatre tickets. And – unlike the UK’s top-down, centralising, money-to-venues-already-getting-money approach – this scheme depends on companies opting in. Here’s Kris Vire: Theater companies, in my understanding, choose to opt in and choose how many tickets at which performances they want to give away. …

So, free theatre tickets. Thoughts in no particular order: 1) More people seeing theatre is good, not least for people who make theatre. At the very least, it will subsidise Monday night takings, when even people who like theatre prefer to stay at home. 2) The logic is presumably this: if they like it, they …