Opinion: In the battle for profit-sharing, it’s a question of risk

Should actors be paid for their contribution to shows that go on to be hits? I’ve been going to the theater regularly since I turned 10 (1962, the Martin Beck, Jerry Herman’s “Milk and Honey,” with Molly Picon) and as an ink-stained kvetch since “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” (1976, the Public). One constant that has endured across those decades is my reverence for actors. I’m in awe of them, the mystery of their talent, the ferocity of their commitment and perhaps above all their generosity. They strip themselves bare emotionally and sometimes…