Creating Effective Artistic Advisory Structures
How theaters can harvest external wisdom without surrendering internal authority through intentional advisory design
Why Subscription Models Are Collapsing (And What Replaces Them)
The old bargain is broken, but smarter theaters are discovering what audiences actually value—and building relationships around it.
The Stage Manager as Organizational Backbone
Why the role holding productions together deserves recognition as essential infrastructure, not technical support
Board Development for High-Performing Theaters
Building boards that enable artistic ambition requires years of deliberate cultivation, not occasional recruitment scrambles.
The Casting Director's Invisible Power
How casting directors shape careers, organizations, and industry patterns from theater's most consequential blind spot
Pricing Strategy Beyond Simple Supply and Demand
How ticket pricing communicates organizational values and shapes the audiences you'll serve for decades to come
The True Cost of Choosing the Wrong Space
Why venue selection is the strategic decision that silently shapes your production's artistic ceiling and financial floor
Why Commercial Transfers Usually Disappoint Everyone
Understanding why enhancement deals and Broadway transfers systematically disappoint nonprofits, artists, and commercial producers alike.
The Hidden Economics of the Workshop Production
Understanding the financial and relational calculations that drive theater development reveals why investing in work that may never profit remains essential.
Building a Dramaturgy Program That Actually Works
Why most theater dramaturgy programs fail and the structural conditions that enable this discipline to genuinely strengthen productions and organizations.
Season Programming as Portfolio Theory
How sophisticated theaters balance artistic risk and institutional stability through portfolio-style season programming strategies.
Why Your Artistic Director Search Keeps Failing
The leadership transitions destroying theater organizations fail not from poor candidates but from unexamined institutional contradictions that doom any director before they begin.
Managing the Director-Designer Collaboration
Strategic frameworks for arts administrators to cultivate productive director-designer partnerships without stifling the creative friction that generates exceptional theatrical work.