Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The day after our 10 Minute Play contest ended last year, I had five emails asking me when I was going to do it again. And those five emails told me we were on to something (I have a rule in…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
It seems senseless to write about producing drama today, when a real life drama with real life tragedies is happening just a few hundred miles from here, in my home state of Massachusetts. S…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Good question, right? Well, I’ve got a bunch of thoughts on the subject, but I thought I’d leave this question to an expert. Oh Elia? Elia Kazan? Can you take this one? Last …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 12, 2013
. . . at least this once. See, Trump sued someone last week. And no, it wasn’t about a birth certificate. And it wasn’t his hair stylist. It was a cyber squatter. Mr. Celebrity…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 11, 2013
The NCAA Championship could be one of the best designed competitions in the world. March Madness, The Brackets, The Betting, The Sweet 16, The Final Four . . . The Champion. Every step of …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Look around. Behind most successful businesses, you’ll see not one man/woman but two. Why sure, one may be more in the spotlight (Bill Gates/Paul Allen), it usually takes two brains …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Awards season is upon us! And Off Broadway’s honors, The Lucille Lortel Awards, fashionably early as always, announced their nominations last week. But someone . . . or something . .…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Are you a Game of Thrones fan? There’s a whole lot of people who are (including me, a former D&D player who loves me some swords and dragons and Peter Dinklage). So HBO did what …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
So who won? What are you asking me for? I didn’t give away the ticket! My Associate Producer, Hunter Chancellor, did. Go ask him! ;-) The winner of the ticket to the invited dr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 5, 2013
The Olivier Awards (London’s Tonys) announced their nominations last week. If you didn’t catch them, click here to see the complete list. And then let me know if you noticed anyt…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Ten years ago I had an idea for a show. I knew what the concept would be. And I knew who the characters would be. And that’s about it. I put about 20 actors in a room and met onc…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
I’ve written about the next generation of theatergoers a couple of times and how different they’ll be from the ones we have now based on a few things: They were born with a compu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
When I started producing Off Broadway in 2004, it was a challenging landscape. With hard work, “a little bit of luck,” and a lot of guidance from experts in the field, I managed …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 1, 2013
A week or so ago, I tweeted a photo of me signing a contract for a show set to debut this fall. Well, today, it’s time to announce what that show is . . . As you probably know, IR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective The most read post of the month: Why the Veronica Mars movie backers got screwed.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, March 29, 2013
Alright, let’s talk about how we can do some damage and start to take back our discounts! (Insert revolutionary cheers and french people waving flags and putting up barricades here.)…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, March 28, 2013
Whether you know it or not, we’ve been at war for years. Our enemy? The discount sites . . . the code farms . . . those not-so-secret online destinations where customers, some of who…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
I saw War Horse when it was a wee pony of a show at The National Theatre and remember thinking how wonderful it was going to be on Broadway. And it was. Although it didn’t last as long…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Over the past decade or so, Broadway has had a popular music invasion, as artists like Elton John, Paul Simon, U2, The Eurythmics tried their hand at writing the score to a musical. Some t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Last Thursday, I announced that Hunter Chancellor won our very first Associate Producer Scholarship on my upcoming production of The Scottish Play Macbeth. (Alan says we can say it whereve…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 22, 2013
If you haven’t heard, Rob Thomas, the creator of the Veronica Mars television series, launched a “Make The Movie of VM” Kickstarter campaign recently, in an effort to make …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
What a day I had on Tuesday. For three hours, 12 future Broadway-Producers-To-Be and I talked all things theater, including marketing, financing, and why the show that I wish I would have pr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
I stumbled on this website recently that had a bunch of great tips on writing from folks like David Ogilvy and Henry Miller . . . but it was Ol’ Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on writing a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Before I begin this blog, let me say, I believe brokers have a place in our business. And in most businesses, actually. The free market system should allow an individual or a business to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Miss this year’s TEDxBroadway? Curious as to where I got my “takeaways?” Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway? And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Whenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, “What if we didn’t ha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, March 14, 2013
Thanks to the glorious thing that is cable television, I watched one of my favorite 80s movies over the weekend . . . Wargames . . . starring none other than Nice Work if You Can Get It’s …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Remember that time I said we’d have 10 Finalists for the Macbeth Associate Producer Scholarship? Well, because we received an inbox-clogging several hundred applications, I’m mo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
A news alert from my neighbors upstairs! (Did you know I was in the same building as NYMF? Well, ya do now!) NYMF’s annual networking extravaganza is this coming Saturday, March 16…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 11, 2013
A great lesson in business comes to us today from a new company called Pogoseat, who has developed some brand new software that could have a serious application in the theater. Remember that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 8, 2013
It’s trivia week here at the Producer’s Perspective! Yesterday a Sondheim stat and now take a look at this: We all know that print advertising is on the decline, right? Well, c…
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