It is the kind of work that involves taking responsibility, interacting with others, solving problems creatively, and accepting team challenges. It is an art form in which, very often, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Theatre teaches grace under pressure. Opening nights always come and the show must go on. All theatrical productions are, in effect, mini-corporations targeted toward the completion of a project within a specific time frame, with budgets, deadlines, specialized departments within an infrastructure, chains of command, workers and supervisors.
Productions can succeed or fail.
They demand the best effort that one can give. Theatre develops specific skills. Among them are voice training, speech, movement, carpentry, painting, drafting, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, architecture, sewing, pattern drafting, interior design, make-up, pyrotechnics, stage combat, and others. These are skills that can be used in the theatre and out of it. Theatre is a liberal art for the Renaissance man and woman.