Download or read book How to Run a Theatre written by Jim Volz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of us in the arts field are hungry to improve our skills in arts management. The grim tenor of the times makes this witty and fun guide even more valuable to us all!" Ben Cameron, Former Executive Director, Theater Communications Group "Dr. Jim Volz knows how to organize, how to manage, how to motivate, how to assign priorities. In short, he knows how to get the job done." Abe J. Bassett, Former Dean, Indiana University/Purdue University Jim Volz is one of America's leading theatre consultants with over three decades of work with theatre, dance, music, museum and arts center management. Now, Jim Volz brings his expertise to anyone who works in arts management, from novices to middle managers to executive directors. How to Run a Theater is a unique, dynamic, and savvy guide to building an arts institution that works. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, here is practical advice on a variety of management skills: Financial Management; Personnel Management; Fundraising Development; Board of Trustees Communications; and Marketing & Audience Development. This new edition is thoroughly updated and revised and now includes a Board of Trustee Contract, new budget exercise with ticket income formulae and the use of social networking for marketing and fundraising.
Download or read book Play Director s Survival Kit written by James W. Rodgers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive guide covers the where, when, and how for every step of school play production, including play selection and adaptation, auditions, casting and dealing with disappointed students, budgeting, coaching actors, setting up a production team, rehearsals, publicity, and promotion.
Download or read book How to Run Great Drama Workshops and Set Up Your Own Theatre Group written by Marilyn Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Reid helps readers run theatre and dance workshops in the nursery, school, community theatre, or anywhere else, and points them in the correct direction to find funding.
Download or read book How to Start Your Own Theater Company written by Reginald Nelson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty-gritty details--such as managing rent, parking, and safety issues; determining tax status and calculating budgets; and finding flexible day jobs--that are often overlooked amid the zeal of artistic pursuit. Inspired by Congo Square's own unique inception, the valuable how-to also speaks directly to the many underserved audiences who want to create their own companies, including African American, Asian American, Latino, physically challenged, and GLBT communities. With lists of Equity offices, legal advisers, and important organizations, this complete resource is sure to help ambitious theater lovers establish and maintain their own successful companies.
Download or read book The Impossible Theater written by Herbert Blau and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1964 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author critiques contemporary American theater.
Download or read book How to Run a Small Box Office written by Kirsten Beck and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in an OOBA monograph series providing practical assistance for Off Off Broadway (008) theatres. This booklet gives basic procedures for operating an Off Off Broadway box office serving a general admission theatre with 100 seats or less. Small music, dance, multi-media performance groups and community arts organizations will also find the information given here helpful. Topics covered include: tickets, physical set-up, reservations, sales and box office closing. While the main purpose of any box office is to distribute tickets, it must also serve as a control-to make possible an accurate accounting system for tickets purchased and money received. In addition, the box office is a potent public relations tool for any theatre; it is often the only place where the audience meets a personal representative of the theatre. If your box office is well run, you can quickly answer these questions: 1. Why is there so little cash to deposit when the reservation book indicated the house was nearly sold out last night? 2. How much money did we take in last night? Last week? During the last production? Last season? 3. What percentage of this season's ticket sales was full price? How does that compare to last season's figures? 4. What percentage of the audience buys tickets with Theatre Development Fund (TDF) Vouchers (see footnote p. 38)? Does that have mailing list implications? 5. Are we fulfilling City and State regulations? 6. Do we have accurate records, for an auditor, funding source, or legal authority that demonstrate the existence of adequate procedures and controls?
Download or read book The Subversive Copy Editor written by Carol Fisher Saller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Working in Theatre written by Gill Foreman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully comprehensive look behind the scenes of the theatre covering all the major roles including director, designer, playwright, sound and lighting and many more.
Download or read book Running Theaters Second Edition written by Duncan M. Webb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice Culled from Interviews with More Than One Hundred Experts in the Field In Running Theaters, management consultant and author Duncan M. Webb reveals the best practices that consistently lead to successful theater operations. Culled from surveys and interviews with theater managers and experts in crucial functional areas, this guide provides important tips for all people who work or want to work in regional, campus, and community-based theaters. Updated to reflect changes in the field, this second edition includes information on recent programming trends, marketing in the digital age, and the evolving role of theaters in economic and community development. Chapters discuss topics such as: Front- and back-of-house operations Managing nonprofit and commercial renters Building and managing a board of directors The financial management of theaters The necessary skills and attributes of a successful theater manager The unique opportunities and challenges of operating historic, outdoor, and campus-based theaters. Every theater manager needs this invaluable guide filled with the proven strategies of managers, staff, and volunteer leaders covering virtually every aspect of running a theater—from drawing audiences and fundraising to facility development and community involvement.
Download or read book The Perfect Stage Crew written by John Kaluta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They’ll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity, preparing tickets, technical rehearsals, and more.
Download or read book Drama Menu written by Glyn Trefor-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Download or read book Directing a Play written by Michael McCaffery and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly successful series has been revised and reprinted in new, exciting covers. The five titles work together to create all you need to know about how to present a production. Each expertly written book contains many creative ideas as well as essential information. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Lend Me a Tenor written by Ken Ludwig and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1930, a world-renowned Italian tenor arrives to perform Othello but is too indisposed to go on.
Download or read book Let s Put on a Show written by Stewart F. Lane and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For novice and first-time theatre producers at all levels, but especially in community and regional theatre. Offers how-tos on the fundamentals of every aspect of production.
Download or read book Introduction to Production written by Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre, the book shows how theatre has evolved through history. The book then breaks down the nuts and bolts of the industry by looking at each professional role within it: from the topmost position of the producer down to the gopher, or production assistant. Each of these positions are defined along with their respective duties, rules, and resources that figure in obtaining these jobs. Each chapter offers exercises, links to videos and websites, review quizzes, and suggested readings to learn more about the creation and production of theatre.
Download or read book Working Actor written by David Dean Bottrell and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including: - Capturing the perfect headshot - Starting (and maintaining) your network - Picking an agent - Audition do’s and don’ts - Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA) - On stage vs on screen - Paying the bills - Self-promotion - Late bloomers - When to get out David Dean Bottrell has worn many different hats during his decades in showbiz: television actor with appearances on Boston Legal, Modern Family, The Blacklist, Mad Men, True Blood, NCIS, and Days of Our Lives; screenwriter for Paramount and Disney; respected acting teacher at UCLA and AADA; and regular expert columnist for esteemed acting site Backstage. In Working Actor, Bottrell offers a how-to manual jammed with practical information and insider advice, essential reading for any artist (aspiring or established) in need of insight or inspiration. Mixing prescriptive advice ("Getting Started," "Learning Your Craft," "Finding an Agent") with wisdom drawn from Bottrell's own professional highs and lows and those of his acting compatriots, this book's humorous, tell-it-like-it-is tone is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to successfully navigate show business.
Download or read book She Kills Monsters written by Qui Nguyen and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2016 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised 2016 Edition. She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and ’90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
