2,069 stories by "Ken Davenport"
. . . at least this once. See, Trump sued someone last week. And no, it wasn’t about a birth certificate. Â And it wasn’t his hair stylist. It was a cyber squatter. Mr. Celebri…
The NCAA Championship could be one of the best designed competitions in the world. Â March Madness, The Brackets, The Betting, The Sweet 16, The Final Four . . . The Champion. Every step o…
Look around. Behind most successful businesses, you’ll see not one man/woman but two. Â Why sure, one may be more in the spotlight (Bill Gates/Paul Allen), it usually takes two brain…
Awards season is upon us! Â And Off Broadway’s honors, The Lucille Lortel Awards, fashionably early as always, announced their nominations last week. But someone . . . or something .…
Are you a Game of Thrones fan? There’s a whole lot of people who are (including me, a former D&D player who loves me some swords and dragons and Peter Dinklage). Â So HBO did wha…
So who won? What are you asking me for? Â I didn’t give away the ticket! Â My Associate Producer, Hunter Chancellor, did. Â Go ask him! Â ;-) The winner of the ticket to the in…
The Olivier Awards (London’s Tonys) announced their nominations last week. If you didn’t catch them, click here to see the complete list. And then let me know if you noticed anyt…
Ten years ago I had an idea for a show. Â I knew what the concept would be. Â And I knew who the characters would be. Â And that’s about it. I put about 20 actors in a room and m…
I’ve written about the next generation of theatergoers a couple of times and how different they’ll be from the ones we have now based on a few things: They were born with a compu…
When I started producing Off Broadway in 2004, it was a challenging landscape. With hard work, “a little bit of luck,” and a lot of guidance from experts in the field, I managed …
A week or so ago, I tweeted a photo of me signing a contract for a show set to debut this fall. Â Well, today, it’s time to announce what that show is . . . As you probably know, I&#…
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: Why the Veronica Mars movie backers got screwed.…
Alright, let’s talk about how we can do some damage and start to take back our discounts! Â (Insert revolutionary cheers and french people waving flags and putting up barricades here…
Whether you know it or not, we’ve been at war for years. Our enemy? Â The discount sites . . . the code farms . . . those not-so-secret online destinations where customers, some of w…
I saw War Horse when it was a wee pony of a show at The National Theatre and remember thinking how wonderful it was going to be on Broadway. And it was. Although it didn’t last as long…
Over the past decade or so, Broadway has had a popular music invasion, as artists like Elton John, Paul Simon, U2, The Eurythmics tried their hand at writing the score to a musical. Â Some…
Last Thursday, I announced that Hunter Chancellor won our very first Associate Producer Scholarship on my upcoming production of The Scottish Play Macbeth. Â (Alan says we can say it where…
If you haven’t heard, Rob Thomas, the creator of the Veronica Mars television series, launched a “Make The Movie of VM” Kickstarter campaign recently, in an effort to make …
What a day I had on Tuesday. For three hours, 12 future Broadway-Producers-To-Be and I talked all things theater, including marketing, financing, and why the show that I wish I would have pr…
I stumbled on this website recently that had a bunch of great tips on writing from folks like David Ogilvy and Henry Miller . . . but it was Ol’ Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on writing a…
Before I begin this blog, let me say, I believe brokers have a place in our business. Â And in most businesses, actually. Â The free market system should allow an individual or a busines…
Miss this year's TEDxBroadway? Curious as to where I got my "takeaways?” Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway? And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers lik…
Whenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, "What if we didn't have a…
Thanks to the glorious thing that is cable television, I watched one of my favorite 80s movies over the weekend . . . Wargames . . . starring none other than Nice Work if You Can Get It's Ma…
Remember that time I said we’d have 10 Finalists for the Macbeth Associate Producer Scholarship? Well, because we received an inbox-clogging several hundred applications, I’m …
