Wednesday, May 13, 2015
The RoadOn the Road, Actors Seek Higher Pay - NYTimes.com How a theatre fan from Montreal became a Broadway power broker - The Globe and Mail How 'A…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2014
"To Flip a Flop"--great title for an essay by Elizabeth Weiss for the New Yorker blog about the prospects for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark recouping money now that it's closed on Broadway. …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2013
The Seattle paper The Stranger reports on the contradictory pull on theater artists: Stay in Seattle or Try for New York?http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/Conte…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:56AM[SHARE]American Theatre magazine for November 2013 has an interesting brief piece on the actual budget for a production of August: Osage County at the ZACH Theatre in Austin, Texas. Note the …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:53AM[SHARE]Ken Davenport is excited that theater producers may now be able to advertise to attract investors. The change in Federal law Davenport discusses may seem picayune to us in the theater …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:32AM[SHARE]The evidence for the health of the NFP arts and especially theater is mixed.The National Arts Index continues on and gets media notice. It's latest report, which is actually for 2010, …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:29AM[SHARE]Is Broadway healthy or failing? As usual, the evidence varies.Wicked continues strong.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/30/a-wicked-decade-how-a-critically-trashed-musical-…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:11AM[SHARE]Don't mess with Disney!http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmovies/article/Disney-Suing-Theater-Over-LION-KING-MARY-POPPINS-Copyright-Infringement-20130926http://lancasteronline.com/article/local…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 08:57AM[SHARE]Carnegie Hall's stagehands are acknowledged to be the best paid in the business. The strike was not for more pay but to force Carnegie Hall to create new union jobs. It worked.ht…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 08:47AM[SHARE]The result is a nice piece of design. Can't imagine it will have much effect for the City or the League. Click screendump below to go to the website.
SOURCE: Stage Money at 08:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
A study published in the journal Economic Letters, finds that although many artists are prone to high unemployment and low incomes which would suggest they have low job satisfaction, in fact…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:35AM[SHARE]Here's a provocative list of the 50 most powerful people in the NFP arts, compiled by Barry Hessenius. Barry is the author of Hardball Lobbying for Nonprofits: Real Advocacy for Nonpro…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:26AM[SHARE]The Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Fort Lauderdale breaks records for numbers of subscribers and single ticket sales:http://www.broadwayworld.com/fort-lauderdale/article/Maltz-Jupiter-Theatre-Brea…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:21AM[SHARE]Strong feelings rise about the demise of any good regional theater and the shuttering of SSC by the action of the University of California, Santa Cruz administration has engendered strong fe…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:17AM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
Especially when you include special packages from NFP theaters for donors: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jul/29/theatre-ticket-prices-expensive
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:45AM[SHARE]Have you seen Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark? Would you invest a dime of your own money in another life for the lifeless book and music? I have and I wouldn't. But it appear…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:42AM[SHARE]Being a Broadway producer is hard enough without criminals trying to pull a scam, especially such a dumb one at that. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/movies/hollywoods-big-bet-on-broadway-…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:41AM[SHARE]I have had a few wonderful evenings in the Broadway-area cabaret 54 Below and I look forward to more. But it seems the original financial plan isn't working out.http://www.bloomberg.co…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:38AM[SHARE]Changes imperil NFP theaters: North Carolina http://www.hpe.com/news/x2042201086/Shakespeare-Festival-pullout-leaves-city-theater-in-lurchArizonahttp://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/arts/arti…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 09:26AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Actors in many markets must choose whether to join Actors Equity or not. With Actors Equity there's higher pay and the chance of getting health insurance...if you work. But in ma…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:44AM[SHARE]There's an advertising truism that has been attributed to a couple of early successful merchants:"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.Find…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:39AM[SHARE]Although the media hubbub about ticket scalpers focuses on sports and big pop music shows, the same principles apply to the theater. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/magazine/the-secr…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:33AM[SHARE]The Intiman Theater in Seattle returns, a smaller and different organization.http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/theater/intiman-theater-in-seattle-downsizes-into-a-summer-festival.html?pa…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
The NEA has extracted data from US Census records about earnings and locations for artists, including theater artists. There are few surprises.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkb…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:57PM[SHARE]http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/theater/theaterspecial/broadway-success-has-a-price-2500.html?ref=theater&_r=0For Pippin this year, Fran and Barry Weissler got their physical Tony …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:56PM[SHARE]Well, not a recipe that always works. As the Variety link notes, although the last season saw five successes following the formula of star performers in a limited run, four other produ…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:45PM[SHARE]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/business/media/20th-century-fox-opening-division-for-live-theater.html?_r=0Fox follows Sony, which started a partnership in the summer of 2012.http://artsbe…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:41PM[SHARE]Funding for NFP Arts Organizations Improves a Littlehttp://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/philanthropy/22555-positive-trends-in-arts-and-culture-funding-at-least-on-the-surface.html An NFP Theat…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Financially, the Broadway season that just ended was not great. Income and attendance were down a bit. Forty shows opened in the 2012-2013 season compared with forty-one new show…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Once this would have been a dog-bites-man story, but it's news today that non-musical plays can succeed on Broadway.http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/broadway-plays-show-surprisin…
SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:15AM[SHARE]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…
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