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"An ideal reference book, regardless of the level of production you intend to produce. This book will truly allow you to stay ahead of problems."
-----Dennis Zacek, artistic director emeritus, Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater
"A comprehensive, yet easy - to - understand handbook of the legal, financial, and tax responsibilities of commercial and non-profit producers."
---Gary Cohen, Tony Award nominated producer, Come from Away (2017)
"The only book I've come across that is truly for today's rapidly changing world...It'll earn its place on any producer's or playwright's desk."
---Jason Epperson, Lotus Theatricals
EXPERT, PARTICAL ADVICE FOR EVERYONE IN SHOW BUSINESS
This updated and expanded section edition of The Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide is the ultimate survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment. The information contained in this handbook is essential for those working in Broadway, regional, stock, or university theater; concert halls; opera houses; and more. Attorney, producer, ad playwright Charles Grippo Provides comprehensive advice on every aspect of the theater business and the law.
The entire range of individuals involved in entertainment - producers, performers, writers, directors, managers, and theater owners - will find practical and legal advice in this user-friendly guide.
CONTENTS
- Crowdfunding your production
- New Opportunities to Raise Money
- Self-Production
- Licensing and Producing Plays
- Devised Theater and Collaborations
- Creating Jukebox Musicals
- Organizing a Theater Company
- Theatrical Insurance
- Maintaining a Harassment Free Environment
- Managing a Not for Profit Theater Company
- Navigating Taxes
- Using Third Party Intellectual Property
- And Much More!
PRAISE FOR BUINESS AND LEGAL FORMS FOR THEATER
"Anyone who is tempted to follow the gleeful example of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes In Arms - 'tell them to meet me in the barn...we're gonna put on a show' should read Business and Legal Forms for Theater from cover to cover. This book is so much more than just a collection of forms. Author Charles Grippo, an entertainment lawyer, playwright and producer, clearly describes why each legal agreement is needed and explains, in plain English, the agreement's key provisions." --David Rodger, editor, Theater Design & Technology.
"Finally! For years we've searched in vain for a practical and usable reference and form book to recommend to our many theater clients and volunteer attorneys. Thank you, Charles Grippo, for your clarity and practical advice. Allworth Press - you've done it again - thanks for the newest addition to our reference library!" - Elena M. Paul, Esq., executive director, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
"Business and Legal Forms for Theater is a comprehensive collection of readable and (thanks to a CD-ROM) easily adaptable model contracts that will be a useful resource for anyone involved in theater production." -- Joan Channick, deputy director, Theatre Communications Group and lecturer in theater management, Yale School of Drama.
CONTENTS
These ready to use forms and contracts, also offered on CD-ROM, cover every aspect of theater law, including author agreements, commissions, production license, play publishing, and more.
- Contracting for non-Equity Actors
- Contracting Directors
- Concessionaire Licenses
- Theater rental
- Booking an Act
- Program Advertising
- Song Licenses
- Performing nude
- Stage combat and stunts
- Portrayal of real persons
- Creating and canceling collaborations
- Joint Ventures
- Acquiring underlying rights
- Purchasing an option
- Recording performances
- And more!
Here is a complete, easy to use resource for anyone involved in the performing arts! The new, expanded edition contains thirty-three indispensable, hard-to-find contracts and forms that will save artists and performing groups thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees, while minimizing their legal risks. This essential reference now includes forms for professions that have recently emerged within the theater industry, such as fight choreographers and fight and stunt directors.
Also included on a convenient CD-ROM (compatible with both Mac and PC platforms) the forms can be copied electronically, modified, customized, and saved.
No matter which side of the negotiating table you're on, you'll find plenty of practical advice in these pages to help you obtain the best possible deal.