Friday?! Whew! Where does the week go?
This past Wednesday evening, I attended a private reading of Mountain Greenery by prolific playwright and fellow WTP affiliate Evan Guilford-Blake. It was a comic look at corporate America and self-discovery and made for a good evening of playwriting/theatre exchange. Watch for it…
When I got home, Hubby wanted to know all about the reading. As I shared, I got to thinking about how much easier it would have been had he joined me, as I prefer exchange to exposition.
But alas, this time around he was home with the children, so that I could have the benefit of going out and enjoying and learning from the evening. Go it solo, or go-it-together-and-do-the-sitter-scramble: this is the decision we make with every performance I look to attend.
And with my recent selection as an Alliance Reviewer for the 2008-2009 season, we’ve already pretty much exhausted our sitter resources (I’m delighted, though–don’t get me wrong).
With this in mind, I offer my kudos to Nightwood Theatre and American Repertory Theatre for implementing an idea whose time has come: offering babysitting services to patrons.
Now granted, I’m sure the market isn’t a giant one, but I’ll bet it’s one that will prove worth tapping.
Nightwood will be launching its onsite babysitting program this season, with select matinee shows. It offers the service free to donors and those with season passes. American Repertory also positions babysitting as a subscriber perk for its select Saturday matinee performances, at $10 per child per show.
If one of the theatres already on my “I Like Their Work” List offered babysitting as a benefit of their season subscription program, the scales would very likely tip in their favor to receive my membership dollars. It is my sincerest hope that this idea will catch on like wildfire. As it’s said, “The family that family that plays together stays together.” 
Do you know of any other theatres, American or otherwise, that offer a childcare perk? Would you be enticed to become a season subscriber with this benefit?
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