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facts + figures
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audiences, facts + figures, funding and support, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Gross
10.11.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThey come, with startling regularity, on Monday and Tuesday each week. “The Grosses.” The Broadway League aggregates and releases the gross sales and attendance for every Broadway show on Monday afternoons (Tuesdays when there’s been a holiday), and a wide range of outlets dutifully report on the biggest hits, the biggest losers, and prognosticate on [...]
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awards, facts + figures, social media, the future
Scoring
Sometime in the 1970s, the once ubiquitous gossip columnist Rona Barrett began reporting box office grosses during her regular appearances on Good Morning America. Prior to that, such statistics were available only to readers of Variety, long the entertainment bible (and perhaps to Hollywood Reporter readers as well, though as a teen I only knew [...]
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arts administrators, collaboration, conversation starter, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, playwrights, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Theatre Econ 101
06.09.11 | Permalink | 27 Commentsor The Woman Behind the Desk is Not Your Enemy The other day, a tweet came across my screen linking to this post about theatre economy. The thrust of the post is that we need to help playwrights be able to make a living writing plays (an important piece of a larger theatre econ conversation [...]
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advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, facts + figures, follow friday, ideas, major regional theatre, partnerships, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 03 June 2011
The Follow Friday posts are back! We look at communities remembering their own stories and pulling together to give to the arts, philanthropy from donors and from theatre companies themselves, playwrights living in towns small and large. We also look at theatre companies working together and, well, working at all. And we check into the [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Why Culture Won’t Stop
03.10.11 | Permalink | 8 CommentsToday is apparently the day that Culture Stops. Except it won’t. I basically agree with their mission: Culture Stops! is a citizen-driven, peaceful day of action by individuals and organizations in the creative sector across the United States who share the simple belief that the power of creative thought is the lifeblood of democracy. The [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, producers
Spider-Man: Broadway Isn’t The Finish Line
02.17.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe New York critics have weighed in, so what’s left? What I haven’t heard mentioned in articles and reviews about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is that, in 2011, for a mega-musical of this kind, Broadway is just an out-of-town tryout. Instead, the producers’ goal is to have a show that will eventually be up and running in [...]
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advocacy, conversation starter, education, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, rabble rousing, social media, supply / demand, theatrical ecosystem
#NEA365: Go.
As Laurie Baskin says at the TCG site, “It is vitally important that you actively participate in advocacy this week regarding the NEA.” Click through to her post where you will find several links for action and advocacy. Do check them out, sign onto the lists, send messages to your congressmen. Also check out Americans [...]
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advocacy, arts service organizations, conversation starter, facts + figures, funding and support, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
A single pack of gum
02.09.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTalk all you want about supply and demand, at least we have a National Endowment for the Arts. For now. If you haven’t read this post by Frank Rizzo at the Hartford Courant about tomorrow’s proposal for cutting the NEA budget, go check it out. I suppose the good news is, there’d still be an [...]
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conversation starter, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, new plays
The Long Tail of the NEA
01.27.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsIt’s easy to get swamped during the Arena Stage Convenings.There is a lot going on and a lot of theoretical conversation. The hardest workin’ folks in show business are trying to fix some part of show business and let me tell you: it’s invigorating. I’ve been on the ground at one of these things, sometimes [...]
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conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, marketing, social media, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem, Uncategorized
QR Codes: What’s a Theatre to Do?
09.08.10 | Permalink | 18 CommentsMashable proclaims that QR codes are poised to hit the mainstream. So what’s a theater to do? First, what are QR codes? QR = Quick Response. They are square bar codes packed with more dense information than the traditional bar code you recognize, and are most often linked to a website. If you have a [...]
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charity, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, marketing, meetup, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem
Event Horizons
At the recent Chicago Theater (anti-)Conference hosted by Theater Wit, I received a lot of questions about events. I’ve got some pretty strong feelings about them. I’ve planned about a zillion and I gotta say, I rarely love the process. But, I like going to events. I enjoy knocking back my free glasses of wine, [...]
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facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, marketing, producers, theatrical ecosystem
I wish I knew then…
08.25.10 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThis past weekend at the Chicago Theatre anti-Conference (#ctac, if you feel like swimming up the Twitter stream), erstwhile arts-administrators-turned-funders Christy Uchida, Boeing Chicago’s Community Investor, and Paul Botts, from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, gave conference attendees the gift of some hard-won insights through a discussion entitled, “If I knew then what I [...]
