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Research shows that for each dollar spent at a local movie theater, an additional $1.50 is spent in surrounding businesses—restaurants, bars, transportation. Theaters are not just retail outlets. They are, as Cinema United’s Michael O’Leary put it, “cultural and economic anchors of communities of all sizes.”

When those anchors disappear, communities... See more

Because when you treat your projects like they have a lifecycle beyond a single marquee, you make better decisions from the start.

You budget differently. You find accounting software that you hate less than Quickbooks Online. You keep investor records up to date. You don’t pay people under the table. You keep a clean paper trail. You scan... See more

The real “Culture Warriors” are filmmakers and movie stars and novelists and pop icons and playwrights and painters and illustrators and composers and comedians and dancers and sculptors and architects and much, much more.

They’re studying story structure or practicing scales or grinding away at the barre or slaving inside a studio or rehearsing... See more

Nothing better exemplifies the hubris and self-delusion endemic to the American theatre—and subsequently its reaction to the pandemic—than this 60-second excerpt of actor Billy Porter:

”As you all know, what the arts does is it cracks open your mind . And it creates critical thinkers out of us. We become leaders, and not followers — so why do you

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But if you have the courage to make art, then find the courage to frame your art as well

What is a Producer?

“ Lives with passion, dies with hope, is a warrior against cynicism, creates a family against all odds.”

"I just found this hammer. What should I do with it?"

Kind of a weird question, right? But it's just like asking "What should I do with this money?"

Well, uh...I dunno. That's not nearly enough information.

A hammer is a tool.

Money is a tool.

You have to get clear on what you're trying to accomplish in life before anyone can tell you what to do with... See more