How Theater Managers Manage
Tess Collins

List Price: $32.95 ISBN: 0-8108-4683-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-4683-8 Pub Date: 2003 296 pages Binding: Paper Availability: In Stock   European customers click here

SUBJECTS
Theater & Dance » Theater

AWARD(S)
Winner of the Bronze Award in Performing Arts, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year 2003

REVIEWS
"...a solid primer for anyone considering theater management as a career and a helpful mid-career review for the professional manager. Appendixes provide a variety of helpful procedural outlines, daily operation and performance forms, information data sheets, emergency and security measures, and sample budgets." — CHOICE

DESCRIPTION
How Theater Managers Manage brings together the stories, beliefs, and experiences of a few seasoned theater managers. Through them, a portrait and a concept emerge depicting what they have unknowingly practiced throughout their careers.

Designed to be a stepping stone for new theater managers, this book covers a wide variety of topics including budgeting theater costs, gross potentials and ticket prices, show contracts, settlements, and emergency and security procedures, to name a few. A sample budget, building forms, and show and performance forms are also included.

While most of the experiences in this book relates to commercial theater, many of the ideas put forth can be applied to not-for-profit theater and facility management.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tess Collins has worked for the Shorenstein-Hays Nederlander Organization in theater management for more than 25 years. She managed the Golden Gate, Orpheum, and Curran Theaters in San Francisco.

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