Sometimes actors actually get paid

A new survey of Off Off Broadway theaters (with 99 seats or less; there are around 350 of them in the five boroughs, doing about 1,700 productions a year) reports that about 60% of them actually pay their actors -- on average, a mere $2,100 for the entire cast for the entire run, but hey ... it sure helps supplement the tips they get from waiting tables. (NYT, 4/13/08)