Wednesday, June 26, 2013
From the StarTribune, an unusually detailed and candid account of the effects over its fifty-year history of the seven artistic directors of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, certainly amo…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:46AMIn dial testing, audience members are given small electronic devices with a dial. They are asked to turn the dial up or down as their interest in a presentation mounts or wanes. The enterpri…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:45AM"The Artful Manager," a blog on arts administration by Andrew Taylor, faculty member of American University's Arts Administration Program, is often interesting. This link is a brief overview…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:06AMMore bad news for the other-than-Broadway professional theater.http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/20/193855858/to-be-or-not-to-be-covered-by-the-ap
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:58AMAccording to news reports, winning a Tony has a positive effect on a show's box office.http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/fe4b45f7e9964fc5a18893c96bb47d37/AP-US--Theater-Tony-Award…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:57AMTwo more NFP theatres closing; another announces a big deficit.http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/Avery-Schreiber-Theater-to-Close-at-the-End-of-June-20130615#http://www.latimes.com…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:57AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Second Act: An Intiman revival | Crosscut.com June 10. NFP theater in Seattle. Center Theatre Group headed for …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:51AMSaturday, January 12, 2013
There 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:14AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Here'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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:54AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Finally, 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 …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:27AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Financially, 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 …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:34PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Do 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 08:37AMFriday, May 6, 2011
A 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 …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:24PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
The 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 …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:37AMSunday, October 10, 2010
For 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:46PMWednesday, October 6, 2010
Third 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 …
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:55PMThursday, August 5, 2010
Theatre 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. …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:10AMTuesday, July 27, 2010
The 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:19AMThursday, July 8, 2010
The 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:30AMThursday, June 10, 2010
The 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 02:25PMTuesday, May 25, 2010
We'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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:58AMMonday, May 24, 2010
In 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:07PMSunday, May 16, 2010
"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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:23AMSaturday, May 15, 2010
In 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:44AMMonday, May 3, 2010
The 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:39AMFriday, April 9, 2010
That 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 08:45PMMonday, March 22, 2010
In 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…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:12AMSaturday, March 6, 2010
Michael 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…
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