2,068 stories by "Ken Davenport"
I was an absolute cliche last week, and celebrated my bachelor party in Sin City itself, Las Vegas, Nevada. And before you ask, this was not a Hangover-like experience at all. Â Some golf,…
I see maybe three movies a year in the theater. Â I’m one of the reasons that movie theater attendance is declining (and faster than Broadway attendance, so there’s one thing w…
There’s nothing that sets my heart a flutter more than when someone from the traditional business world takes an interest in what we’re doing on Broadway. So imagine how excit…
By far, and I’m talking by super far, 100 to 1 type stuff, the question I get asked the most from readers is “How do I raise money for my show?” Sometimes the askers are lo…
What I love about Once is that it’s a great reminder that there is no formula for success on Broadway. You’d think that the key elements in creating a Best Musical Tony Award …
As many of you know, I often say that people aren't price resistant, they are value resistant.
We're not going to be able to ever drop our prices. Just impossible. So we're going to have …
When we were doing research for the 2014 Broadway Marketing Awards, we stumbled across the video below and thought, “Genius! Â Whatever agency did this is certainly getting a nod.…
Summer lovin’, had me a . . . festival! The New York Musical Theater Festival, the first of the summer show fests, starts in just 3 days!  Got your tickets yet? If you haven̵…
The reason we held the first annual Ghostlight Awards was to shine the spotlight on the people in the wings, in the pits and working front of house at the forty Broadway theaters in to…
A scandal and an outrage has been brewin’ out of town over the last few days ’bout a show from last season that didn’t last too long on the boards. I’m talkin’ …
And you thought award season was over. Bahahahahaha. Awards season ain’t over until The Fat Lady sings the nominees for the most important awards of all . . . the awards that actually …
Remember that time NYMF used to be in the fall? Not anymore! In 2012, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the world’s most popular festival exclusively for the development of new mu…
You should all be concert promoters. For this week’s giveaway, I challenged you all to come up with a trio of performers (living or dead) for a one-night-only concert, and I can honest…
