2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Whenever something is scarce and has value, there will always be a way for resellers to profit from it. Diamonds, Elvis Presley Autographed Toilet Seats, and yes, theater tickets. That prefa…
Every few months or so, someone rings the death knell for Broadway, and for theater in general. Antiquated, archaic . . . and a few other "A" words are bandied about by those who t…
As I announced back in September, our final reading of the year has international ancestry. Martha, Marina, was written by Ana-Maria Bamberger of Bucharest and has quite a life overseas, whe…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 4, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $447,102 4,458 60.1…
There is a lot I could tell you about Burning, the new play by Thomas Bradshaw that is premiering at The New Group right now. But I think this says it all . . . WARNING: Explicit Material- n…
A study was just released in the UK that just proved what you and I already knew . . . going to the theater actually makes you happier. Yep, you can read all about it here, but according to …
Well, well, well, would you look at this! The House of Reps down in DC passed a bill recently that's near and dear to my heart called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. In what is being…
Hey, readers, here is your monthly recap of what posts you were the most engaged with over the past 30 days. The most read post of the month: Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . The most c…
If you're a basketball fan, you've been foaming at the mouth and ornery to everyone you know for the past couple o' months, as you've suffered through B-Ball withdrawal thanks to the lockout…
26 Weeks down. 26 to go. The 2011-12 Broadway season is half over and already people are wondering . . . will we shatter another sales record? Well, so far, so good. The first 26 weeks of th…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 27, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $313,879 5,136 69.…
I don't watch that much TV anymore. And none of it is live. What I do is pick a word-of-mouth recommended series available to watch instantly on Netflix and watch a few episodes a week while…
Another week, another Broadway musical! Special thanks to the Producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the sponsors of this week's Sunday Giveaway. One of you will get two free tickets to see B&…
It's 12:38 AM as I type. We're 38 minutes into Black Friday, and I know a bunch of people at brick and mortar stores right this very second. In the middle of dessert at the Thanksgiving dinn…
There's a whole bunch of things about the theater industry that I wish were a whole lot . . . different. But despite all that, on a day like Thanksgiving, it's important to remember that whi…
Advertising isn't about impressions. It's about conversions. Someone could offer me a free 1,000,000 piece direct mail for Godspell to citizens in Sri Lanka and it would be just about worthl…
As has become the custom here at TPP, here is a list of just five of the takeaways from this past weekend's Get Your Show Off The Ground Seminar. Sending out unsolicited scripts is like an a…
Confucius say, "Anything that can be done big, can be done small." Ok, he didn't really say that, but it doesn't make it any less true. Case in point. When big Broadway shows "…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 20, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $358,956 4,701 74.…
It's been called "one of the greatest musicals never to play New York" . . . and now, Kander and Ebb's The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and John Cullum, will be presented in the ci…
Save the date, PPers, it's time for the Producer's Perspective offline event of the year, the Producer's Perspective social. (insert sound of "whoop whoop" here) Don't know what th…
One of the greatest gifts Twitter has given brands is the ability to electronically eavesdrop on conversations about their products. "@XXX airlines sucks! Waited for three hours on tarm…
Yep. Finish it with me . . . Why not a play club . . . or a musical club. Right? My mission as a theater professional is to amplify the conversation about the theater. More people talking ab…
Sure you know about WOM, but do you know about WOMMA? WOMMA is the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (yep - if it exists, there's probably an organization to support it - and if there isn'…
Veteran's Day was this past weekend, and it had me singing Madonna in the shower this morning. If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would…
