If any students read this blog, they need to know about http://www.studentrush.org/. This new site brings together links to discounted and free tickets for theater, dance, museums, film, etc…
The Broadway season ended May 23. Income was up a bit; attendance was down a bit. Thirty-nine new shows opened in the 2009-10 season compared with 43 in the 2008-9 season. The de…
We've noted previously here about star salaries on Broadway and the impact of stars on Broadway box office. We noted that when David Hyde Pierce went on vacation from the Kander and E…
In a chapter of Stage Money titled "Shall We Dance: The Commercial and Not-for-Profit Relationship," we explore the many ways that the commercial theater--namely, Broadway and touring--and t…
Stage Money is available now from USC Press and should be available from Amazon in a short while. Hooray!The cover includes a quote from Steven Adler, author of On Broadway: Art and Co…
"Budgets" is not a misprint in the title of this post, for a commercial theatrical production has two budgets, the start-up budget that covers everything up to opening night and the operatin…
In our book Stage Money, we note repeatedly that the little off-Broadway show The Fantasticks has been an outlier--a very unusual example--in the financial history of commercial theater in A…
The New York Times has an interesting article today about the problems producers have now in licensing a Broadway theater for a show, because so many are dominated by long-running hits…
That is, what is a Broadway theater building worth?In Stage Money, we use some public figures to estimate the value of a Broadway theatre--read the book to find out what sources--and estima…
In Chapter 6 of Stage Money, we layout the problem of defining professional not-for-profit theater. The NFP part is easy, since NFPs must have a 501(c)3 certification from the IRS.&nbs…
Michael Riedel (pronounced reed-el) writes a column for the New York Post about theatre that is not just the usual stuff. Sometimes he shares juicy gossip; other times, he writes about turn…
The Innovative Theatre Foundation has conducted a number of interesting and important surveys about off-off-Broadway. The most recent survey, "Demographic Study of Off-Off-Broadway Pra…
This blog is about the business and finances of the professional theatre, so this post is off-topic. But I had a small epiphany last week I want to share.I was in NYC to see some theatre, g…
