News Link: A Recipe for Broadway Success with a Straight Play by [email protected] ( )

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 on July 12, 2013☆⚑

News Links: 20th Century Fox Becomes the Last Large Film Studio To Produce Broadway Musicals by [email protected] ( )

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 on July 12, 2013☆⚑

News Links: NFP Theaters and Other Arts Organizations by [email protected] ( )

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 on July 12, 2013☆⚑

Summarizing the Broadway Season by [email protected] ( )

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 1:27pm on July 3, 2013☆⚑

News Link: Plays Can Succeed on Broadway by [email protected] ( )

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 on June 26, 2013☆⚑

Seven stages of the Guthrie Theater at 50 by [email protected] ( )

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…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:46am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

News Link: Dial Testing, a Common Procedure in Television and Film, Comes to the Broadway Musical by [email protected] ( )

In dial testing, audience members are given small electronic devices with a dial. They are asked to turn the dial up or down as their interest in a presentation mounts or wanes. The enterpri…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:45am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

The Responsibility of a NFP Arts Organization by [email protected] ( )

"The Artful Manager," a blog on arts administration by Andrew Taylor, faculty member of American University's Arts Administration Program, is often interesting. This link is a brief overview…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:06am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

News Link: Associated Press Halts Reviews for off-Broadway Shows by [email protected] ( )

More bad news for the other-than-Broadway professional theater.http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/20/193855858/to-be-or-not-to-be-covered-by-the-ap

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:58am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

News Links: Tony Awards' Impact on Box Office by [email protected] ( )

According to news reports, winning a Tony has a positive effect on a show's box office.http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/fe4b45f7e9964fc5a18893c96bb47d37/AP-US--Theater-Tony-Award…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:57am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

News Links about the Business of the NFP Theatre by [email protected] ( )

Two more NFP theatres closing; another announces a big deficit.http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/Avery-Schreiber-Theater-to-Close-at-the-End-of-June-20130615#http://www.latimes.com…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:57am on June 26, 2013☆⚑

Recent Media Links for Theater Business News by [email protected] ( )

Second Act: An Intiman revival | Crosscut.com             June 10.  NFP theater in Seattle.  Center Theatre Group headed for …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:51am on June 14, 2013☆⚑

About the L3C by [email protected] ( )

There is a rough consensus that the not-for-profit theater in the U. S. is in trouble.  At first, the recession that began in 2008 was blamed, but, gradually, many realized that the rec…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:14am on January 12, 2013☆⚑

Another Cover Image! Another Finished Book! by [email protected] ( )

Here's the cover image for the last of this year's three books, the ninth edition of The Enjoyment of Theatre, published by Pearson...or whatever its name is by now.  Now there is somet…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:54am on December 7, 2012☆⚑

Cover of A Concise History of Theatre, First Edition by [email protected] ( )

Finally, we are done with our first textbook together, A Concise History of Theatre, to be published by Penguin/Pearson in January 2013.  We've seen the cover draft and that's the last …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:27am on November 7, 2012☆⚑

Broadway 2011-2012 Season Financial Results: "Meh" by [email protected] ( )

Financially, the Broadway season that just ended was 'meh.' Income was up a bit; attendance was down a bit. Forty-one new shows opened in the 2011-12 season compared with 42 in the 2010-11 …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:34pm on June 20, 2012☆⚑

Apology by [email protected] ( )

Do to other book assignments, I have been unable to update this blog.  But it is not totally dead.  I continue to update the links on the right: links to current news articles abou…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 8:37am on December 5, 2011☆⚑

Review in Latest American Theatre by [email protected] ( )

A review of Stage Money appears in the May-June 2011 issue of American Theatre, the magazine published by Theatre Communications Group.  Written by Richard Stein, executive director of …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:24pm on May 6, 2011☆⚑

NFP Theater Supply Down by At Least One: Intiman of Seattle by [email protected] ( )

The news came out yesterday that the Intiman Theatre of Seattle was canceling the rest of this season and laying off all staff.  The board hopes to restart the theatre with a 2011-2012 …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 11:37am on April 19, 2011☆⚑

This Recession for One Theater by [email protected] ( )

For a interesting and personal story of the impact of the recession on at least one theater and one theater-maker, read an op-ed piece in today's New York Times: "Recession Theater" by Ann H…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:46pm on October 10, 2010☆⚑

Government Support for the Arts, including Theater by [email protected] ( )

Third Way bills itself as a moderate think tank of the progressive movement.  They recently published a tax receipt, an itemized list of what the average American household's taxes pay …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 1:30pm on October 6, 2010☆⚑

The Star's Away--and So Is a Lot of the Audience by [email protected] ( )

Nathan Lane took a vacation from the run of The Addams Family last week, August 24-29.  I found out when I looked at the weekly grosses on Playbill.com.  The Addams Family grossed …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 12:55pm on October 6, 2010☆⚑

If You Read Nothing Else about the NFP Theater, Read "Theatre Facts 2009" by [email protected] ( )

Theatre Communications Group has just released their annual survey, Theatre Facts 2009.  If you care about the regional theater in the US, you should peruse this valuable resource. …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:10am on August 5, 2010☆⚑

Sizing Up the New York Not-For-Profits by [email protected] ( )

The Alliance for the Arts has published a list of the 100 biggest not-for-profit cultural organizations in New York City, measured by budget.  Nine theater producing groups are in the t…

SOURCE: Stage Money at 10:19am on July 27, 2010☆⚑

Take Two International Stars and a Pound of Press Releases by [email protected] ( )

The formula is being trotted out again.  Two great stars"Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones"will revive Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy for a limited Broadway run scheduled to open …

SOURCE: Stage Money at 9:37am on July 8, 2010☆⚑