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Running Theaters: Best Practices for Leaders and Managers
2nd edition now availablE
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.
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The Performing Arts Center of 2032
In April 2007, Webb Mgmt hosted a conference in New York City to consider the future of performing arts facilities. Over the course of two days, forty performing arts facility managers from around the country worked through a series of presentations and discussions on audiences of the future, where performing arts disciplines are headed, what is happening in the area of arts funding and how, then, buildings should be planned and developed in order to succeed some twenty-five years from now. A narrative report outlining discussions and conclusions was then published in a monograph released by Americans for the Arts.
Durham Performing Arts Center
Development of Performing Arts Facilities in Western Resort Communities
Webb Mgmt completed an examination of the unique factors that influence performing arts facility development in western resort communities. Interviews and research focus on the communities of Telluride, CO; Sun Valley, ID; Steamboat Springs, CO; and Jackson Hole, WY.
New York City’s Foreign-Born Dance Workforce Demographics
By Dance/NYC, DataArts, and Webb Mgmt
This study mines recent survey data on the workforce of legally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance organizations and of artists and projects who have entered into a fiscal sponsorship arrangement with a 501(c)(3) organization. It offers the most comprehensive assessment of the characteristics, needs, and opportunities of foreign-born dance workers ever published as well as key benchmarks to guide action and measure progress over time.
Advancing Fiscally Sponsored Dance Artists & Projects
Commissioned by Dance/NYC and realized in collaboration with a coalition of research partners, this discipline-specific study focuses on the segment of independent dance artists and projects that have entered into an arrangement known as “fiscal sponsorship” with legally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit institutions. By extending its purview beyond institutions and offering the first-ever comprehensive snapshot of the characteristics, needs, and opportunities of the sponsored dance workforce, Dance/NYC seeks to advance a dance ecosystem in the New York City area that is expansive and equitable and to generate innovations that directly benefit artists and their artistry
Advancing Fiscally Sponsored Artists & Arts Projects: A Report for the City of New York
This report is a major contribution to ongoing cultural planning by the City of New York and a game changer in research and advocacy for the segment of independent artists and arts projects that have entered into an arrangement known as “fiscal sponsorship” with legally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit institutions. Under this arrangement, sponsors provide financial and legal oversight and share their tax-exempt status.
The Operation and Financial Performance of Historic Theaters
Webb Mgmt undertook a research project surveying all active historic theaters in North America and collecting information on their activities and financial performance. The results of this research were presented at the July 2001 Conference of the League of Historic American Theaters in New York City.