Comments on: New Leaf launches a new financial plan http://theaterforthefuture.com/new-leaf-launches-a-new-financial-plan/ The Art in the Business of Theater - Collaboration Tools and Technology and the Storefront Theater Movement Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: A Year of Ideas into Action | Theater For The Future http://theaterforthefuture.com/new-leaf-launches-a-new-financial-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-5037 A Year of Ideas into Action | Theater For The Future Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:33:13 +0000 http://theaterforthefuture.com/?p=849#comment-5037 [...] other companies and organizations to mutually solve our company goals (an initiative we laid out on the New Leaf blog in December 2009).  Last December, we struck a deal with our after-show bar, Rocco Rannalli’s in Lincoln [...] [...] other companies and organizations to mutually solve our company goals (an initiative we laid out on the New Leaf blog in December 2009).  Last December, we struck a deal with our after-show bar, Rocco Rannalli’s in Lincoln [...]

]]> By: Kim Comer http://theaterforthefuture.com/new-leaf-launches-a-new-financial-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-1705 Kim Comer Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:17:52 +0000 http://theaterforthefuture.com/?p=849#comment-1705 "I’m sorry, but we just don’t need money like organizations that fight poverty and hunger and violence and disease do." Hear HEAR!! It's the presumption that live theater is as important or as pressing as starving children in Africa (for example) that makes me disillusioned with my current profession. When theater matches itself to problems of a global scale, it becomes petty, self-indulgent and irrelevant. That's not to say that theater should distance itself from the problems of the world. There are ways to coexist with these issues and engage with the subject. But theater is an INDUSTRY. Maybe not-for-profit, but still an industry. Not a charity. I agree: find a viable business model and execute it. People are buying the experience of your plays. “I’m sorry, but we just don’t need money like organizations that fight poverty and hunger and violence and disease do.”

Hear HEAR!! It’s the presumption that live theater is as important or as pressing as starving children in Africa (for example) that makes me disillusioned with my current profession. When theater matches itself to problems of a global scale, it becomes petty, self-indulgent and irrelevant.

That’s not to say that theater should distance itself from the problems of the world. There are ways to coexist with these issues and engage with the subject. But theater is an INDUSTRY. Maybe not-for-profit, but still an industry. Not a charity. I agree: find a viable business model and execute it. People are buying the experience of your plays.

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