See Coyote on a Fence and Help Children in Need

Coyote on a Fence is playing at the Hub Theatre of Boston and the tickets are not an arm and a leg. In fact, you can pay what you want.

The Hub Theatre of Boston is a theatre company that creates positivity with performing arts, and they are doing that with a pay-as-you go ticket model.

The company’s goal is to create a diverse audience. Allowing patrons to use pay-what-you-can ticketing, anyone can come to any show. Having pay-what-you-can destroys the economic barrier and allows audience to enjoy productions instead of paying $150 for one ticket to attend a high end production, according to their website.

The Hub is owned by four artists and actors. The two major owners, John Geoffrion and Lauren Elias, are the artistic director and managing director. Geoffrion has been in the arts for more than 20 years. Daniel Bourque is the associate artistic director and has been in theatre since his early teens.

“I was in my teens when I started doing theatre in high school. I was going home one night after school and a friend had told me I should stay and audition for a play with him…I was casted and got hooked right there,” said Bourque.

Bourque was also heavily influenced by his parents at a young age.

“My parents loved opera and classical music so I had a lot of exposure to that when I was young,” said Bourque.

Bourque has been with the company since it started in 2013. The four main owners got along really well and took on Bourque to be a part of the artistic and administrative responsibilities.

For young aspiring actors, it offers opportunity for higher acting careers. By producing entertaining and imaginative ideas on a small budget, the company creates intimate settings between audience and performers.

The directors believe the arts it for everyone. However, the production running now, Coyote on the Run, is only allowing people from the ages 16 and up into the production due to mature themes and some violence.

Coyote on a Fence is the company’s first show of the season but it will end on April 30. The team has produced 14 full shows and dozens of dramatic readings, in the past four years since it opened.

The money that is collected through pay-what-you-can not only pays for theatre space, props and costumes, it also goes to local charities that help with distributing children’s books.

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