2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Here’s a little known secret out there for all you Producers looking to raise money internationally, and for all you wealthy foreign nationals looking to obtain green card status in ou…
You know what I love about David Rockwell? He’s the King of the Crossover, designing everything from hotels like the fabu Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and restaurants like Nobu to airp…
I love me an amusement park. Â At least one day every summer, you can find me at Six Flags eating a funnel cake (although we simply called ‘em fried dough back in Mass), and riding t…
The 10th Anniversary of the New York Theatre Musical Festival is upon us! Â Boy, it seems like just yesterday I was attending an orientation meeting for Season #1 when Altar Boyz made it&#…
I helped a friend by a car yesterday. Thanks to the world-wide-interwebs, buying a vehicle ain’t like what it used to be. Â Thanks to websites like Truecar.com, buyers can walk into …
As we all take a moment today to celebrate the independence of our wonderful (even though at times dysfunctional) nation, I thought we should also take a moment to celebrate the Independence…
I recently found myself at a vacation destination . . . where the local economy is fueled almost entirely by tourists who fly in from places around the world. When I arrived, I was welcomed …
Well, looks-a-daisy what we have here. Gordon Cox at Variety, who thankfully still gets to write about theater even though his publishers have slashed legit coverage like it was a rain fores…
For the record, non-profit producing ain’t for me. I’ve got a lot of respect for those that can do it well, because just the thought of asking for money from folks with no possib…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective The most read post of the month:Â My Top 6 Favorite Things about the 2013 Tony …
The only party game more fun that YouTubing “people falling down” is watching polished and poised News Anchors f*@# up. Â They’ve got perfect hair, perfect skin, and spea…
Da-da-da-da! Â (That’s supposed to be a trumpet sound, btw.) The e-envelopes please, because it is time to announce the winners of the 2013 Broadway Marketing Awards, as chosen by yo…
It’s the battle of the business publications! In this corner, we have the Harvard Business Review, who in April published “7 Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People.R…
I met Richard Matheson in 2001. I was 28 years old.  And I hadn’t produced a dang thing. But I had a lot of ideas, and one of them was turning his novel and screenplay, Somewhere…
I popped a rights request off to a major movie studio last week . . . for a semi-popular but mostly-forgotten flick that I think has tuner potential. The response I got from the studio inclu…
We’ll get to the “fun” part of this Friday post in a paragraph or two, but this first bit ain’t so fun. The world tragically lost the big boss, Mr. James Gandolfini, …
I’ve been stewing about titles a lot lately.  In fact, the show that I announced on this blog as Garage Band a few months ago, that opens at George Street Playhouse in the fall, …
I did something crazy the other day. I read a newspaper. Not a kindle version. Â Not the .com version. Â No. Â I picked up and read an actual, ink comes off on your fingers, NY Times. …
The survey results are in, and here’s your report card on this year’s Tony Awards telecast. 98. 66% of Producer’s Perspective readers watched the Awards On a scale of 1 to …
Here’s my rule of three: Whenever I hear the same comment from three or more people, whether that’s “Ken, I don’t like that actor’s costume,” or “Ke…
It’s that time again! Just when you think Award Season is over, here comes the biggest and baddest . . . and what arguably could be the most important! It’s the 2013 Broadway Mar…
First, let me say this . . . I love me some Bloomberg. Â There’s not much that he’s done in his reign over this city that I’ve disagreed with. Â Shoot, I’m a Coca…
For everyone in the biz, the day after the Tonys is a busy one, especially if you have a new show running. Â Wraps are analyzed, new ads are placed, closing notices are prepped . . . and a…
And just like that, the night that so many of us look forward to more than Christmas and our birthdays, Â is over. Another Tony Awards is in the books. Â The speeches are done. Â The p…
Oh man, it’s so dang exciting! Â Just 48 hours until Broadway’s big day, when a whole bunch of artists' dreams will come true, and salary quotes will go up. But who will be tak…
