How to Run a Theater: A Witty, Practical and Fun Guide to Arts Management

By Jim Volz

Book Overview

The definitive arts management guide, this book is written with tremendous insight and humour and packed with dozens of lists, such as 22 Wonderful Ways to Improve Your Life in the Theater and 20... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823083136
• ISBN13: 9780823083138
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Back Stage Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Simple, Clear, and Saves Time

Our staff continues to use this book. Jim Volz makes things simple and clear, and he saves us boatloads of time trying to figure out how to do things ourselves from scratch. HOW TO RUN A THEATER is also a great training tool for new staff. We are using various chapters as preparatory reading for our strategic planning meetings. I am proposing that our management classes use this text. I am so happy Jim wrote this book. Cindy Melby Phaneuf Founder/Artistic Director, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Isaacson Professor of Theatre, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Excellent Theatre Management Book

This book is amazing. I have been teaching graduate level theatre management courses for 18 years. I have also managed several professional theatres. I discovered this book at the beginning of this year; too late to require it for my students...but I have used much of the information and insights in this book for class lectures. Next year, it will be required reading for my students. Volz covers every major area of theatre management in a fun, succinct and educational manner. I love it!

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK FOR THEATRE PEOPLE

How to Run a Theatre is a terrific book for children's theatres, youth theatres, church theatres AND professional theatres...we learned so much reading it.

A Great Book for Arts Managers, Artists and Artist/Managers

Volz' How to Run a Theater should be required reading for anyone working in the field of arts management -- be they artists or managers or artist/managers -- and anyone training to work in this challenging field. Written in the "witty" style that the subtitle suggests, this text offers an extensive overview of the many challenges that theatre managers face today, and more importantly, sound advice on how to succeed in spite of them. Volz offers us in-depth insights into such real managerial dilemnas as: season planning, budgeting, and audience development and such life management issues as: goal setting, networking and surviving in the competitive field of arts management. Using knowledge gained through over three decades of work as a nationally-recognized arts consultant and university professor, Volz not only inspires his readers to make their artistic dreams into reality, but, like any good consultant, teaches them how to do so. Perhaps best of all, this advice is offered with an appropriate blend of humor and perspective, encouraging readers to pursue their artistic goals, and to enjoy the process of reaching them along the way.