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How Theater Managers Manage
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.
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.
292 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2003
About the author
Tess Collins
13 books33 followersA coal miner’s granddaughter, Tess Collins was born and raised in a crater. Yes, really—a crater formed by the impact of an asteroid millions of years ago, where her hometown of Middlesboro, Kentucky was eventually built. Tess spent her younger years in a one-room Carnegie Library, reading around the room. She started with Blueberries for Sal and ended with War and Peace, at which point she thought, I want to do that.
That ambition took her to the University of Kentucky, where she majored in journalism and creative writing, and eventually to a Ph.D. from The Union Institute and University, with a focus on theatre management and producing. She is the author of eight novels and a non-fiction book on theater management. She now lives in San Francisco, where on a clear day she can see the Golden Gate Bridge, a long way from the crater, but exactly where she was always headed.
Visit her website at TessCollins.com/
BOOKS BY TESS COLLINS
FICTION
The Appalachian Trilogy:
The Law of Revenge
The Law of the Dead
The Law of Betrayal
The Midnight Valley Quartet:
Notown
The Hunter of Hertha
Shadow Mountain Saga:
Shadow Mountain
Other Fiction:
Helen of Troy
A Wave of Breath
Non-Fiction:
How Theater Managers Manage
That ambition took her to the University of Kentucky, where she majored in journalism and creative writing, and eventually to a Ph.D. from The Union Institute and University, with a focus on theatre management and producing. She is the author of eight novels and a non-fiction book on theater management. She now lives in San Francisco, where on a clear day she can see the Golden Gate Bridge, a long way from the crater, but exactly where she was always headed.
Visit her website at TessCollins.com/
BOOKS BY TESS COLLINS
FICTION
The Appalachian Trilogy:
The Law of Revenge
The Law of the Dead
The Law of Betrayal
The Midnight Valley Quartet:
Notown
The Hunter of Hertha
Shadow Mountain Saga:
Shadow Mountain
Other Fiction:
Helen of Troy
A Wave of Breath
Non-Fiction:
How Theater Managers Manage
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August 5, 2008
Patrons really don't want to see workers who have wild hair and piercings.
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