99 seats asks:
We’re not all a bunch of dirty hippies out here in the arts world. I know that. There are conservatives, libertarians, LaRouchites in the arts world. So, maybe, your political philosophy is that the government shouldn’t be involved in the arts. [...] The thing I hate the most about the conservatives in the [...]
The Everyman Theatre is one of the best theaters in Baltimore. They make great art. They consistently sell out their shows. Everyman gets big props.
They also just climbed on board the Twitter wagon.
Now, I’ve got nothing but love for Everyman. And there’s nothing really wrong about how they’re using Twitter. [...]
Yesterday I learned of a thing called MetaFilter. Someone in the MetaFilter community subsumed my recent blog posts into a MetaPost about theater economics.
The ensuing conversation is great fun to read, although a little difficult to follow; coherency suffers in the age of aggregated essays. Clarity also suffers: “Is this sentence addressed to [...]
Since my recent post arguing that artists should not receive public funds for the purpose of making art, I’ve been thinking a lot about how theater artists earn money.
You know, in terms of business models, just about anything beats theater:
The product can not be mass-produced.
At best, you can replicate it a few hundred seats at [...]
I’m a little scared to write this entry. You’ll see why in a minute. Hopefully by the end you’ll also see why I decided to do it anyway.
Welcome to the Recession, I’ll be your Impending Sense of Doom for the evening.
In a year of deep financial crisis the theater community—never far from financial [...]