Consider a sport or activity that may help him/her obtain a possible scholarship to college or one that your child can build upon such as competitive dance, theater, gymnastics, karate, track or team sports.
Theater may be known as the fabulous invalid, but artists and critics who go into this low-paying, highly competitive field are tougher than you think.
Now, as if from some perverse competitive spirit, the theater has decided to step back into two dimensions, in a big way.
Clear Channel has such an enormous stake in how Broadway fares collectively that it defies the darkly competitive ethos of the theater district, where your rival's failure is your success.
In the very competitive world of New York theater, where casting for star power has become the norm, and the bottom line speaks louder than any line of dialogue, the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago is something of an anomaly: a staunch champion not only of emerging playwrights, but also of homegrown casts.
But Cruz has never made the transition from competitive forensics to political theater, the latter involving how regular folks see things and whether they like you.
But if art these days is like a teenager -- sarcastic, ungrateful, and existentially conflicted -- staging anti-art stunts as your art no longer makes you radical in what is now a competitive and often vacuous theater of ironic one-upping.
The final act in the weeklong drama of Woods's return to competitive golf had its moments of theater, when he rallied to three shots off the lead.
(Though there are many comedians who live and work in Brooklyn and Queens, Mr. Sidtis said it was "too soon" to contemplate the troupe's theaters in either of those boroughs. "The nature of the theater is pretty industry competitive," he said. "What industry remains in the city is strongly based in Manhattan").
If Snapchat can be the place for must-see TV on the go, it could lure in new and churned users looking for a relaxing escape from the competitive world of social media success theater.
