Today is Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Second Act: An Intiman revival | Crosscut.com June 10. NFP theater in Seattle. Center Theatre Group headed for …
Linked From Stage Money at 02:43PMThere is a rough consensus that the not-for-profit theater in the U. S. is in trouble. At first, the recession that began in 2008 was blamed, but, gradually, many realized that the rec…
Linked From Stage Money at 03:13PMHere's the cover image for the last of this year's three books, the ninth edition of The Enjoyment of Theatre, published by Pearson...or whatever its name is by now. Now there is somet…
Linked From Stage Money at 01:06PMFinally, we are done with our first textbook together, A Concise History of Theatre, to be published by Penguin/Pearson in January 2013. We've seen the cover draft and that's the last …
Linked From Stage Money at 11:08AMFinancially, the Broadway season that just ended was 'meh.' Income was up a bit; attendance was down a bit. Forty-one new shows opened in the 2011-12 season compared with 42 in the 2010-11 …
Linked From Stage Money at 03:13PMDo to other book assignments, I have been unable to update this blog. But it is not totally dead. I continue to update the links on the right: links to current news articles abou…
Linked From Stage Money at 08:37AMA review of Stage Money appears in the May-June 2011 issue of American Theatre, the magazine published by Theatre Communications Group. Written by Richard Stein, executive director of …
Linked From Stage Money at 01:00PMThe news came out yesterday that the Intiman Theatre of Seattle was canceling the rest of this season and laying off all staff. The board hopes to restart the theatre with a 2011-2012 …
Linked From Stage Money at 12:00PMFor a interesting and personal story of the impact of the recession on at least one theater and one theater-maker, read an op-ed piece in today's New York Times: "Recession Theater" by Ann H…
Linked From Stage Money at 12:46PMThird Way bills itself as a moderate think tank of the progressive movement. They recently published a tax receipt, an itemized list of what the average American household's taxes pay …
Linked From Stage Money at 01:30PMNathan Lane took a vacation from the run of The Addams Family last week, August 24-29. I found out when I looked at the weekly grosses on Playbill.com. The Addams Family grossed …
Linked From Stage Money at 12:55PMTheatre Communications Group has just released their annual survey, Theatre Facts 2009. If you care about the regional theater in the US, you should peruse this valuable resource. …
Linked From Stage Money at 09:10AMThe Alliance for the Arts has published a list of the 100 biggest not-for-profit cultural organizations in New York City, measured by budget. Nine theater producing groups are in the t…
Linked From Stage Money at 10:19AMThe formula is being trotted out again. Two great stars—Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones—will revive Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy for a limited Broadway run scheduled to…
Linked From Stage Money at 09:37AMIf any students read this blog, they need to know about http://www.studentrush.org/. This new site brings together links to discounted and free tickets for theater, dance, museums, film, etc…
Linked From Stage Money at 09:30AMThe Broadway season ended May 23. Income was up a bit; attendance was down a bit. Thirty-nine new shows opened in the 2009-10 season compared with 43 in the 2008-9 season. The de…
Linked From Stage Money at 02:25PMWe've noted previously here about star salaries on Broadway and the impact of stars on Broadway box office. We noted that when David Hyde Pierce went on vacation from the Kander and E…
Linked From Stage Money at 09:58AMIn a chapter of Stage Money titled "Shall We Dance: The Commercial and Not-for-Profit Relationship," we explore the many ways that the commercial theater--namely, Broadway and touring--and t…
Linked From Stage Money at 12:49PMStage Money is available now from USC Press and should be available from Amazon in a short while. Hooray!The cover includes a quote from Steven Adler, author of On Broadway: Art and Co…
Linked From Stage Money at 12:07PM"Budgets" is not a misprint in the title of this post, for a commercial theatrical production has two budgets, the start-up budget that covers everything up to opening night and the operatin…
Linked From Stage Money at 11:23AMIn our book Stage Money, we note repeatedly that the little off-Broadway show The Fantasticks has been an outlier--a very unusual example--in the financial history of commercial theater in A…
Linked From Stage Money at 09:44AMThe New York Times has an interesting article today about the problems producers have now in licensing a Broadway theater for a show, because so many are dominated by long-running hits…
Linked From Stage Money at 11:39AMThat is, what is a Broadway theater building worth?In Stage Money, we use some public figures to estimate the value of a Broadway theatre--read the book to find out what sources--and estima…
Linked From Stage Money at 08:45PMIn Chapter 6 of Stage Money, we layout the problem of defining professional not-for-profit theater. The NFP part is easy, since NFPs must have a 501(c)3 certification from the IRS.&nbs…
Linked From Stage Money at 10:12AMMichael Riedel (pronounced reed-el) writes a column for the New York Post about theatre that is not just the usual stuff. Sometimes he shares juicy gossip; other times, he writes about turn…
Linked From Stage Money at 10:42AMThe Innovative Theatre Foundation has conducted a number of interesting and important surveys about off-off-Broadway. The most recent survey, "Demographic Study of Off-Off-Broadway Pra…
Linked From Stage Money at 10:39AMThis blog is about the business and finances of the professional theatre, so this post is off-topic. But I had a small epiphany last week I want to share.I was in NYC to see some theatre, g…
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