Theater Management

Catalog description

The course examines theatre enterprises, focusing on both existing and emerging business models for producing or presenting theatre organizations from Broadway to Omaha. Theatres are uniquely responsive to their audiences and ecosystems, hence, the course will investigate how the business works - internally and externally. While programming (plays) are at the core of the theatrical exchange, this course will focus its attention on the institutional frameworks that provide the financing, staffing and audiences to those works. The course will be organized in a seminar structure. Lecture will occur to deliver core concepts but the course emphasizes discussion, individualized investigations and creative projects.