Running Theaters: Best Practices for Leaders and Managers

The best practices that consistently lead to successful theater operation are now revealed in this comprehensive resource. Culled from surveys and interviews with theater managers and experts in crucial functional areas, this guide provides important tips for all people who work or want to work in regional, campus and community-based theaters. Proven strategies from managers, staff, and volunteer leaders cover virtually every aspect of running a theater - from audience development and fundraising to facility development and community involvement. • Advice culled from interviews with more than 100 experts in the field

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

• How to Run a Theater: Creating, Leading and Managing Professional Theatre
• Theatre Management
• Theatre Management: Arts Leadership for the 21st Century
• Standing Room Only: Marketing Insights for Engaging Performing Arts Audiences
• Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices
• Achieving Excellence in Fundraising (Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management)
• The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals
• Don't Just Applaud, Send Money: The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the Arts
• The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition: Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance
• The Production Manager's Toolkit: Successful Production Management in Theatre and Performing Arts (The Focal Press Toolkit Series)