Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide
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At last, the definitive business and legal survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment! The entire range of individuals involved in entertainment-- performers, writers, and directors to box office managers, theater board members, and theater owners--will find comprehensive answers to questions on every aspect of theater business and law. Written by attorney, producer, and playwright, this book reveals hundreds of insider strategies for minimizing legal costs, negotiating contracts, and licensing and producing plays. It also features expert, practical advice on such topics as tax risks and liabilities, safety regulations, organizing the theater company, financing, box office management, not-for-profit management, and much more. Plus everything is explained clearly, written without a lot of legal jargon. managing director, Madison Repertory Theatre - Tony Forman This is a cery useful compendium of essentials, from the mundane to To find a straightforward, factual, but also somewhat humorous collection of facts and practices in this business is refreshing and unusual. This is destined to become a textbook that gets dog-eared from constant reference.
Introduction: Why You Need This Book Chapter 1: Organizing a Theater Company Chapter 2: Your Performance Space Chapter 3: Licensing Plays Chapter 4: Producing Original Plays Chapter 5: Commissions and Company-Generated Works Chapter 6: Financing Commercial Theater in a Limited Partnership Chapter 7: Managing the Nonprofit Theater Company Chapter 8: Joint Ventures Chapter 9: Box Office Management Chapter 10: Artistic Staff Chapter 11: Safety Chapter 12: Taxes Chapter 13: Wrapping Up Appendix A: Play Licensors Appendix B: Dramatists Guild Appendix C: Collective Bargaining Agents
