May 9th, 2008

Running Theatres: Best Practices for Leaders and Managers - Duncan M. Webb - Running Theatres distills the wisdom and expertise of more than fifty theatre managers, staff, and volunteer leaders into crucial insights and strategies on all aspects of running a regional, historic, campus, or community-based performing arts centre.

Entertainment Industry Economics - Sixth Edition - Harold L. Vogel - Entertainment Industry Economics is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference guide on the economics, financing, production, and marketing of entertainment in the United States and overseas. Investors, business executives, accountants, lawyers, arts administrators, and general readers will find that the book offers an invaluable guide to how entertainment industries operate.

Creative Arts Marketing - Liz Hill, Catherine O'Sullivan & Terry O'Sullivan - Based on the highly successful first edition, this revision remains a practical introduction to the whole range of principles and practices used to attract and retains audiences and participants for arts events. It also looks at the broader political, economic and commercial issues that affect all art organizations. In all, this is an invaluable text for both students and arts managers.

Standing Room Only - Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts - Philip Kotler/Joanne Scheff - If you work in the performing arts or are concerned about their future, this book is for you. A complete and up-to-date sourcebook of marketing strategies and techniques for music, dance, opera, and theatre organizations, Standing Room Only is an indispensable tool for performing arts managers, marketers, board members, fund-raisers, educators, donors, corporate sponsors, and consultants.

Building Media Relationships - Susan Sommers - Building Media Relationships is the definitive manual on how to work professionally and productively with Canadian media. This book is designed for anyone who is or will be responsible for generating media understanding and coverage. It is thorough, user-friendly and filled with the kind of tips that will make a media relations practitioner successful.

The Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide - Charles Grippo - The definitive survival kit for anyone ppresenting live entertainment, this book addresses business and legal issues concerning all manner of performance: Broadway, regional, stock, university, and regional theatre; concert halls, opera houses, and cabarets; and much more.

Production Management Making Shows Happen: A Practical Guide - Peter Dean - Production Management takes you through the process of making shows happen from the point of view of the Production Manager. The book includes techniques, information and tips on how to: work with directors and designers, run production meetings, oversee the rehearsal process, manage a production team, and lead the production week and technical rehearsal.

Canadian Television Financing: The Buck Stops Here - This is the book anyone in the business needs to have. Don't start without it - you'll lose your shirt.

Building the Successful Theatre Company Lisa Mulcahy - In this inspiring and insightful book, Lisa Mulcahy take the reader on a guided tour through the unpredictable landscape of bringing people together, finding a space and, finally, making theatre. Using profiles of fourteen of the most diverse and vital theatre companies in the U.S., this indispensible book provides the enterprising performing artist with valuable real-world advice, and sound entrepreneurial strategies.

Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations - Second Edition - Karen Brooks Hopkins and Carolyn Stopher Friedman - This comprehensive guide will be of great help to anyone posed with the difficult task of fundraising for arts and cultural organizations.

Seasoned Theatre: A Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Senior Adult Theatre - Martha Haarbauer - A practical guide to all aspects of establishing and maintaining a senior adult theatre. Readers will discover information on organizing, recruiting, and working with older actors; choosing appropriate material; making technical descisions; locating a place to work; attracting audiences; and generating funds to support the theatre group.

Fundraising for Non-profits - P. Burke Keegan

Keegan provides advice to community organizations of developing new techniques and attitudes for fundraising and creating successful partnerships with businesses and other local organizations. Softcover, 215 pp., $25.00.

This book deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to literally get the show on the road. Concert Tour Production Management provides the basic information to manage the production for a touring concert from start to finish in the most effective and efficient way possible. Softcover, 164 pp. $31.95.

Provides the prospective arts manager with theory and practical applications from all management perspectives: planning, marketing, finance, economics, organizational design, staffing, and group dynamics - as they apply to an arts organization, regardless of whether it is a theatre, museum or dance or opera company. This new edition has been revised to reflect the latest thinking and trends in managing organizations and people. New case studies focus on the challenges facing managers and organizations every day. Entirely new budget and financial worksheets bring this edition completely up-to-date. Softcover, 337 pp. $71.95.

The first and only book written specifically for aspiring and established special events professionals, this book provides all the information you need to start, grow, and manage a special events related business or career. You'll learn to develop a vision, a mission, and a strategy; manage your finances; find the capital you need; create a marketing plan; and hire and keep employees that will help your business thrive. Hardcover, 300 pp. $74.95.

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