Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices

Do you know what it takes to manage a performing arts organization today? In this comprehensive volume, more than 100 managers of top nonprofit and commercial venues share their winning strategies.

* Financial management, building a funding base, labor relations, much more

* Explores the realities of running a performing arts organization today

From theater to classical music, from opera to dance, every type of organization is included, with information on how each one is structured, key managerial figures, its best-practices for financial management, how it handles labor relations, and more. Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, the Mark Morris Dance Company, the New Victory Theater, the Roundabout Theater, the Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, and many other top groups are represented. Learn to manage a performing arts group successfully in today’s rapidly changing cultural environment with Performing Arts Management.

• Curtains?: The Future of the Arts in America
• Leadership in the Performing Arts
• The Art of Relevance
• The Resilient Sector Revisited
• Management and the Arts
• The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking
• The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations
• The Arts Dividend: Why Investment in Culture Pays
• Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
• The Business of Broadway: An Insider’s Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World’s Greatest Theatre Community