How much money should a non-profit theater make off a play?
How much money should a non-profit theater make off a play?
#1How much money should a non-profit theater make off a play?
Posted: 11/22/08 at 3:51pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/theater/22mone.html
'“A dialogue is going on right now,” said John Breglio, a commercial producer and lawyer who has advised New York nonprofit theaters since 1971. “The authors say: ‘Look, you’re tax-exempt, you’re supposed to be serving the playwright. If we’re successful, it’s not appropriate for you to be reaching into the playwright’s pocket.’ ”
“But that argument goes too far,” he continued. “There’s nothing in the law that says that when a nonprofit creates something of value, it can’t get a return. And in many cases, if it wasn’t for the nonprofit raising an enormous amount of money, attracting the best people, and bringing in major producers and critics to see it, the play would not have achieved the success it did.”'
What do you think?
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#2re: How much money should a non-profit theater make off a play?
Posted: 11/22/08 at 7:32pmdepends on the size of the venue, cast sizes, staff sizes etc theres no way to say a set amount. I work at a non profit that seats 1300 with a staff of 18, im sure we make more then a smaller non profit house
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