It's About You, Too
By now, you’ve all heard about About Face’s money troubles and their campaign for $300,000 to keep its doors open – either from the media or from emails from the company. I get these direct appeals fairly frequently these days, and I’m used to politely explaining to the Annual Fund staffers at Steppenwolf or the [...]
Personal Economy
Sometimes a discussion of process is made clearer through the use of allegory. In the case of our recent discussion of the business models which support theatre, I hereby offer myself as metaphor fodder.As I mentioned several weeks ago, I’ve been knee-deep in the same sort of soul-searching most theatre companies come around to at [...]
Numb3rs
It’s all about the data, baby. I’m elated that there are some folks in our business – that is, non-commercial theatre – who are interested in hard numbers at a community (as opposed to individual organization) level. However, I’m wondering, “to what end?”
One survey seems to be of the type of demographic research [...]
