Stage Money

Stage Money

The Business of the Professional Theater

  • Auteur: Donahue, Tim; Patterson, Jim; Davenport, Ken
  • Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643360737
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643360751
  • Lieu de publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2020
  • Mois : Août
  • DDC: 792.068/1
  • Langue: Anglais

For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments. In light of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show go on? Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson answer this question and many others in this updated edition of their popular, straightforward guide to understanding professional theater finances and the economic realities of theater production.

This revised edition of Stage Money not only includes the latest financial information and illuminating examples of key concepts; it has been enhanced with a discussion of the stagehands' union plus a new chapter on marketing for the theater. These new elements combined with the essentials of the first edition create an expansive overview of the contemporary theater business. Stage Money is designed for theater enthusiasts and professionals interested in understanding the inner workings of this industry today and its challenges for the future.

Ken Davenport, two-time Tony Award winner, Broadway and Off Broadway theater producer, blogger, writer, and owner of Davenport Theatrical Enterprises writer, offers a foreword.

  • Cover
  • STAGE MONEY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: It’s All about the Money
  • Chapter One Commercial Theaters vs. Not-for-Profit Theaters: Key Differences
  • Chapter Two Commercial Theater On- and Off-Broadway: Financial and Legal Structures
  • Chapter Three Risk and Return in the Commercial Theater
  • Chapter Four The Road
  • Chapter Five A Profitable, African American Theater on Tour: The Chitlin’ Circuit
  • Chapter Six The Not-for-Profit Professional Theater
  • Chapter Seven Stages of the Business Life Cycle and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
  • Chapter Eight Ticket Pricing
  • Chapter Nine Marketing in the Professional Theater
  • Chapter Ten Theatrical Unions
  • Chapter Eleven Shall We Dance?: The Commercial and Professional Not-for-Profit Theater Relationship
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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