Understanding Your Donor Portfolio
How portfolio thinking transforms theater fundraising from relationship hustle into strategic resilience
The Economics of New Play Development
How commissioning models, workshop budgets, and rights deals quietly determine which new plays reach the stage
The Touring Decision Framework
Why the most strategic theater companies say no to most touring invitations
Succession Planning Nobody Wants to Discuss
Why theater organizations avoid essential leadership transition planning and the structural changes required to overcome this collective blind spot
Navigating the Enhancement Process
What nonprofit theaters must understand before signing commercial enhancement deals that will shape their work's future.
Why Your Strategic Plan Isn't Strategic
Most theater strategic plans achieve consensus by avoiding the difficult choices that actual strategy requires.
When Should You Close a Show Early?
Strategic frameworks for theater's hardest business decision, from sunk costs to stakeholder trust
Production Manager as Strategic Asset
Why the person managing schedules and spreadsheets might be your organization's most undervalued strategic thinker
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.