The term pro bono has appeared in 68 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 15 in “For This Theater Leader, a Mission That Goes Beyond the Stage” by Bob Morris:
… After his first community theater production, which, he said, sold out its 500 seats for several nights to racially diverse audiences, he directed three more shows for the Players. Then he said he was told that the diversity funding the company had been receiving had ended. So, the company said goodbye.
He recalled wondering, “What am I going to do with all these actors I brought into the theater?”
With a nudge from several of his early supporters, he decided to incorporate. A lawyer did the paper work pro bono. But without a permanent home (an old white van served as a storage unit, a dressing room and more) and even with positive reviews for his shows (performed at churches and community centers), the pressure was overbearing, as was the debt.
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