New Manuscript Submitted So We're Back to Posting
It's been a while since posting here because we were finishing the review draft of our second book. Titled Theater Career Facts: What Students and Parents Should Know, it resembles Sta…
It's been a while since posting here because we were finishing the review draft of our second book. Titled Theater Career Facts: What Students and Parents Should Know, it resembles Sta…
The Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy group, just published its National Arts Index and the data aren't encouraging. The Index attempts to be for the arts what the Dow Jones Ind…
Backstage this week has a brief essay titled, "Need an Acting Job? Start a Theater Company." Please don't, at least, don't start one to get a job. "Why open a theater compa…
Our first review is in Southern Theatre, the journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). The reviewer is--full disclosure--a long-time friend of Jim Patterson but also a the…
In the Afterword to Stage Money: The Business of the Professional Theater the impact of the recession on the theater, particularly the not-for-profit theater, is examined. We write that stat…
In the Boston Globe, Nathan Rabin has an essay "The case for total failure" arguing for the importance of movie flops. He writes that flops have destoyed careers and bankrupted studios…