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| | | Building the community through the arts…it’s how the Arts Council of Indianapolis is making this city a better place. The Arts Council supports the hundreds of arts organizations and thousands of working artists in Indianapolis through a variety of programs and services. It also works to broaden and diversify arts audiences through such efforts as free arts performances and exhibits in the Indianapolis Artsgarden. The Arts Council serves as central Indiana's chief arts resource, not only for artists and arts organizations, but also for government, business, educational institutions, neighborhood and community organizations, visitors and residents. | |
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| | Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts (ACPA) is the nonprofit alliance of greater Atlanta's performing arts organizations and professionals. Our mission is dedicated to programs and services that provide a nurturing environment for the growth of the performing arts, and advance the role they play within the fabric of our society. | |
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| | Boston.com is a website with listing activities in the Greater Boston area. Included on the site is a listing of theatre events and reviews in the area.
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| | The Central Florida Theatre Alliance is a nonprofit, membership-based alliance of theatres, theatrical producers or presenters, supporting organizations and individual performing artists. Since 1997 the Theatre Alliance has existed to work on its members' behalf to nurture and promote the Central Florida theatre community through audience development, artist enhancement and community advocacy. | |
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| | The Dallas Theatre League is a professional association of commercial, non-profit, equity, non equity, community and university theaters whose mission is to encourage cooperation between theaters and artists to promote common interests and better business methods; as well as to celebrate the expansive diversity of the Dallas theatre community and the financial contributions that the theatrical organizations make to business, media and local government.
The mission of the Dallas Theatre League is to encourage and facilitate cooperation among theatres and theatre artists to promote their common interests and better business methods; to celebrate the diversity of the Dallas theatre community and its audiences through all of its activities; to encourage public attendance at live theatre performances; to promote an appreciation of, interest in, and understanding of the theatre art and artists; and to advocate the theatre industry’s cultural and economic importance to the media, government agencies, foundations, corporations, and general public of the city of Dallas. The Dallas Theatre League works to convey the world class status of theatre in Dallas by positioning the theatres collectively as a valuable cultural institution and vital to the city’s image and quality of life. | |
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| | The Desert Theatre League (DTL) was established in 1986 to promote Theatres and Production Companies located in Palm Springs and other communities within the Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin.
The mission of the Desert Theatre League (a non-profit corporation) is to: Increase public awareness of community theatre; Recognize outstanding achievements within the local theatre arts community by sponsoring the annual DTL "Desert Stars" awards ceremony; Improve communication between local theatre organizations, and Subsidize the annual presentation of the Desert Theatre League Bright Stars Scholarship for the Performing Arts. | |
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| | Information and links to Detroit area theatre productions and auditions. | |
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| | The Florida Theatre Conference, Inc. is a non-profit, educational theatre organization founded in 1955 for the purpose of providing programs and services to individuals and group membership. Its membership is unique, comprehensive, and is intended to include all theatre organizations and individuals interested in theatre in the state of Florida.
The goals of the Florida Theatre Conference are to celebrate the diversity of Florida Theatre, nurture communications among the various theatre constituencies, advance the highest possible standards of theatre, and encourage public appreciation of the art form.
Conference members subscribe to the philosophy that the synergy of collaboration enhances the professionalism and quality of our art. The building of a theatre community unique to Florida is important in order to strengthen and support individual theatre artists and theatrical organizations.
The Florida Theatre Conference encompasses all sixty-seven counties and is comprised of five divisions: Children’s/Youth Theatre, University and College Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, and Secondary School Theatre. It acts as a liaison between Florida, regional, and national organizations.
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| | | More than two million people visit Houston's Theater District annually to experience the magic and excitement found on the stages of the Wortham Theater Center, Alley Theatre, Jones Hall, Aerial Theater, and the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. The Theater District, a 17-block area in the heart of downtown Houston, is home to Houston's eight world-class performing arts organizations, the 130,000 square-foot Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas and parks. Houston is one of only five cities in the United States with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines - opera, ballet, music and theater. With 12,948 seats for live performances and 1,480 movie seats, the Theater District of Houston ranks second behind New York City for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area. | |
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| | | KTA is the organization in Kentucky that represents theatre at all levels. Kentucky has a long and venerable theatrical tradition. Almost two hundred years ago actors came to Kentucky and established the first professional theatre on the frontier. Lexington was known as "the Athens of the West." Today theatre is being performed in schools and colleges, at over 50 community groups and at dozens of professional venues. The Actor's Theatre of Louisville is one of the finest regional theatres in America and leads the county in its support and development of new work. Whether we work at ATL or are using drama as a teaching tool in the Elementary classroom, we are all part of the same rich tradition. | |
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| | LA Stage Alliance has its origins in two separate organizations: The Los Angeles Theatre Alliance, a service organization founded in 1975, and The League of Producers and Theatres of Greater Los Angeles, a trade association founded in 1983. Since 1988, the two companies have functioned as a single organization, sharing staff and office space. In 1993, the League was formally dissolved and its assets donated to the Alliance, with the expanded Alliance doing business under the name Theatre LA.
It is the mission of LA Stage Alliance to increase advocacy, awareness, and audience attendance on behalf of our 210 member Performing Arts Organization in Los Angeles County by uniting, representing, and promoting the Performing Arts Community of the greater Los Angeles area.
2003 represented an exciting year for the alliance as we expanded our outreach to the broader performing arts community.
Many performing arts disciplines face the same challenges as theatres and most theatregoers attend other performing arts events. Our programs easily expand to include these organizations and will share the Los Angeles arts audience with whom we have connected. As a true ‘performing arts league’, the greater Los Angeles performing arts community and the people who love it will unite, producing stronger financial, attendance and government policy results. As we begin our expansion into the greater performing arts community, we are proud to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member organization, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, into the league. | |
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| | Founded in 1979, The League of Chicago Theatres is an alliance of theaters which leverages its collective strength to support, promote and advocate for Chicago’s theater industry locally, nationally and internationally. The League is the trade and marketing association that promotes awareness and visibility for live theater in the Chicago area, and provides services that strengthen the operations of more than 130 member theaters.
League programming offers a wide array of services to its members, as well as to the theater-going public. Over the years, the League’s Hot Tix discount ticket sales program has returned many millions of dollars in revenue to theaters, while the Cooperative Advertising Program has saved member theaters millions, enabling them to stretch already-thin marketing budgets. League projects are as diverse as Theater Fever, which highlights member theaters and entices new audiences with free workshops and discount tickets; and the CommUNITY Conference, an industry-wide event that brings the Chicago theater community together for thought-provoking discussion and hands-on seminars. Our services enable members to function more efficiently in an increasingly challenging environment. As stronger institutions, our members in turn provide a more stable home for the individual theater artist. Theater audiences also benefit, having greater access to information and being entertained and enriched by Chicago’s world-class theater.
The League serves a diverse membership of approximately 130 theaters ranging from storefront, non-union companies with limited budgets to major cultural centers with multi-million dollar productions. Members across the full spectrum are active participants and full partners in all League activities, from planning stages to implementation. With such a diverse profile of members, our membership is a source of strength for Chicago’s theater community and makes the League of Chicago Theatres unique among the nation’s service organizations.
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| | Actors, directors, playwrights, designers, established theatres and emerging companies from the Cincinnati area.
League of Cincinnati Theatres
P.O. Box 1398
Cincinnati, OH, 45201-1398
*Individual Membership $25 (For actors, directors, designers, technicians, administrators...)
*Associate Membership $50 (3 shows/season; artistic leader)
*Full Membership $150 (at least 3 shows per season; artistic leader and Board of Trustees; artists paid a minimum of $35 per week) | |
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| | The League of Washington Theatres is an association of nonprofit professional theatres and related organizations in the greater Washington metropolitan area. The League was established in 1982 to create greater public awareness, appreciation, and support for theatre in the Washington area. For almost 20 years, the members of the League have been at the center of an exciting, ever growing, nationally acclaimed theatre community.
Programs and Activities:
The League serves as a forum for its members to address common concerns and as a vehicle for collective action. Current issues of interest include arts advocacy, arts funding, audience development, theatre media coverage, accessibility, current trends in the Washington area, and cultivating a sense of community among its diverse membership. A major ongoing activities include the annual Area-wide Auditions, held over a five-day period each June or July; Stages for All Ages, a program to introduce young people to the magic of live theatre by providing a free tickets for a child 17 years or young for every full price ticket purchased; and Washington Audiences: 2000 and Beyond, a study of Washington theatregoing audiences
Membership Criteria:
Each League member is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) professional theatre operating principally in the greater Washington area. "Professional" is defined as compensating actors and principal staff members on a regular basis. Prior to becoming a League member, a theatre must have produced and/or presented a minimum of 16 public performances annually in the Washington area for three consecutive years. In addition, the theatre must have achieved sufficient organizational stability, staffing consistency, and size to ensure full participation in League activities, accept its purposes and obligations, and benefit from League membership. Annual dues are based on each individual theatre's operating budget.
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| | The Mississippi Theatre Association has been in business under its present structure since the early 70's, but dates back to the mid 50's as the Mississippi Little Theatre Association. The organization serves primarily as a sanctioning organization for the Festival and Convention and the College Theatre Festival under the wider aegis of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the American Association of Community Theatres and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. (SETC, AACT and MTA/KC/ACTF as they are more widely known). Each year, community theatres and selected secondary schools meet for a festival of short plays in a juried format, evaluated by judges from out of state, who select one high school and one community theatre presentation to attend the SETC convention. A concurrent children's festival showcases children's productions to elementary schoolchildren in the host community. | |
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| | The New England Theatre Conference is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing its members with professional services, career development, and recognition awards in the live theater arts. Serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, NETC proudly supports quality theatre and promotes excellence in all divisions of theatre. A recognized voice for practitioners in youth, secondary, university, community and professional theatre, NETC continues to expand its support of New England theatre in addition to nurturing and promoting new theatre activity.
Founded in 1952 by the legendary Boston drama critic Elliot Norton who believed that theatre activists had much to offer one another, NETC was established as the place to learn and share that knowledge. From this simple premise NETC has grown into a dynamic force in New England theater.
New England Theatre Conference, Inc.
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 617.424.9275
www.netc.info | |
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| | | The New Jersey Theatre League (NJTL) is a community based organization representing theaters throughout the state of New Jersey. Incorporated in 1950 with the purpose of "binding together the non-professional theatre groups for mutual aid and advancement, and the stimulation of public interest in their activities", the League expanded its role over the years to include all theatre organizations, and has developed more specific goals. And yet the original purposes are as important today as they were 50 years ago. The League has seen dynamic years and lean years. We are now attempting to bolster the membership, activities, and services so we don't slip into the mid-1980's situation, when operations were suspended due to insufficient volunteer leadership. The League can be an important resource and voice for theatre groups. Newsletters, club schedules, costumes and props availability "bank", technical help, script library, workshops and seminars, expanded Festival, and perhaps day-long conferences are all possibilities. But volunteer help and a larger roster of theatre groups must be attracted. | |
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| | Thank you for your interest in the North Carolina Theatre Conference! NCTC works first and foremost for the theatre community of North Carolina, and most of our programming is offered by and for North Carolina’s theatre practitioners. We improve and enhance the theatre environment in North Carolina by making sure that each and every program we offer and every initiative or goal we pursue is relevant to making North Carolina a better place in which to "Do Theatre."
The inclusion of the word "quality" in the mission statement is important and intentional. By quality, we do not mean to exclude any sector of the field – quality may mean different things in a sixth-grade drama class, a professional LORT theatre, a professional training program, an evolving professional company, in a community theatre or at a community college. It may mean the quality of the experience for the participants, for the audience, or for the art of theatre in general. We support all levels and all sectors of the theatre field and strive to build a membership and a board of directors that reflects that diversity.
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| | The purpose of the Ohio Theatre Alliance is to develop and maintain programs which:
-Promote, encourage and foster the highest standards of live theatre within the state of Ohio.
-Develop a larger and more discerning audience for live theatre.
-Establish methods and media to facilitate and encourage communications and cooperation among all elements of the theatre.
-Maintain cooperative relationships with related arts and educational organizations and agencies within and without the state of Ohio.
-Provide opportunities to interact with colleagues, professionally and socially. | |
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| | The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance is an alliance of producing organizations, individual theatre artists and technicians, and administrators formed to foster and promote high quality theatre in the Sacramento area and neighboring regions. It’s purpose will be: to provide services for their mutual benefit; to develop and facilitate effective communication within the Alliance and between Alliance members and the community; to serve as a resource center which offers and provides technical support, information, and resource sharing for any and all community members. | |
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| | San Diego has the sun, the surf and the sand. But we also have the stage. Each night when the sun goes down, the curtain goes up on stages all over San Diego County. From La Mesa to La Jolla, Vista to Chula Vista, our community is home to some of the finest performing arts in the country.
Now in its 16th year, the San Diego Performing Arts League is a not-for-profit umbrella organization serving more than 130 theatre, music and dance companies and their audiences.
The League develops cost-effective, collaborative programs that bring new audiences to the arts and strengthen San Diego's performing arts with new sources of earned income and management support.
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| | The mission of the South Carolina Theatre Association is to raise the standard of theatre arts and theatre education in South Carolina by facilitating participation and effective communication.
The South Carolina Theatre Association was founded on September 23, 1967 in a meeting held at the Holiday Inn in Greenwood, South Carolina. The meeting had been called by Donald McKellar and Philip Hill, acting at the behest of the Southeastern Theatre Conference. SETC, anxious to create a statewide theatre organization in each of its ten states, had appointed state representatives in those states not already so organized, including Hill in South Carolina. Hill prepared and sent a letter of invitation to identifiable theatres throughout the state, and McKellar provided a meeting site and presided at the organizational meeting. The thirty delegates present, representative of community and educational theatres in all parts of the state, concurred in the need for an organization and voted to constitute itself into such an association. A committee was appointed to draw up a constitution, and officers were elected. They included Donald McKellar as President, Philip Hill as Vice-President, Betty Hudgens as Secretary, and Gene Eaker as Treasurer. It was agreed to hold the first annual convention in Columbia on January 20, 1968, with Town Theatre as the host. That theatre's director, John Bitterman, had booked Margaret Webster for that date, and her performance became a key element of the program. The constitution and bylaws were formally adopted at that January meeting, and a pattern was established of a winter annual convention. The 1972 convention was moved to November, 1971, to avoid conflicting with the SETC convention held in Columbia in March, 1972, and the SCTA convention was permanently moved to the fall beginning in 1975--resulting in two 1975 conventions. | |
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| | Celebrating Theatre! and our 53rd year, the Southeastern Theatre Conference is the largest and most active regional theatre organization in the country. SETC was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in March, 1949 and incorporated under the laws of the State of Florida in 1962.
Recognizing that the theatre arts are a necessary and expressive means by which the human community may come to understand and celebrate itself and that the southeastern United States has a rich cultural diversity and legacy, SETC has as its purpose to provide services and educational programs for those individuals and organizations engaged in theatre in the southeast. | |
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The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia is a member-based service organization comprised primarily of non-profit, professional theatres in the Greater Philadelphia Region. It is the region's only organization focused on building audiences for theatre. The Theatre Alliance's mission is to benefit theatres in the Greater Philadelphia area by increasing positive awareness of the art form, building theatre audiences and strengthening the professional theatre community. The Alliance strives to create a strong, healthy, diverse and vibrant arts community in which theatre is highly valued.
THE ALLIANCE:
Alliance members, over 60 producing and/or presenting non-profit theatres and related organizations, work together to build audiences and nurture the entire theatre community. Program ideas are developed by the membership with the sole purpose of benefiting as many theatre organizations as possible. It is the active participation of its members that makes the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia dynamic and successful. In addition to its existing programs, the Alliance is continually working to develop new marketing opportunities for its members and to develop new audiences for theatre in the Greater Philadelphia Region.
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| | Founded by theatre workers in 1976, TBA's mission is to unite, strengthen and promote theatre in the region. It does this by providing communication networks and opportunities and creating resources for theatre companies, theatre workers, and theatre lovers. TBA serves as a liaison between the theatre community and government, business and others who benefit from a healthy and thriving theatre community.
Theatre Bay Area serves more than 300 member theatre companies and 2,900 individual members in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. We provide services to our members, however, we are not a presenting organization nor a casting agency.
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| | The Theatre League of South Florida is a service organization whose mission is to develop, advance, strengthen and promote theatre and theatre education in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward & Palm Beach counties. Membership is open to English and non-English-speaking commercial, non-profit, community, accessible and educational theatres, regardless of Equity status, and to theatre artists, including actors, directors, playwrights, technicians, designers, educators and students, and to individuals and organizations who wish to support the theatrical community. | |
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| | Theatre Puget Sound is a trade and service organization founded in 1997 to "promote the spiritual and economic necessity of theatre to the public, and to unify and strengthen the theatre community through programs, resources and services."
TPS is a member-driven organization whose main goals are the nurturing of a healthy and vibrant theatre community, developing strong ties among the region's theatre professionals, raising the visibility of the region's theatre scene on national and international levels, and finding ways to develop new and diverse audiences.
TPS is a consortium of theatres and individual artists in the Puget Sound region. Members include theatres ranging from the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, and ACT to GREX, Theater Schmeater, ReAct, and Book-It. (Check the entire list of over 100 member organizations on the Member Organization page) Members also include actors, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians, and theatre administrative staff. We currently have 1100+ individual members.
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| | TC Theatre and Film started as a non-for-profit organization called the Twin Cities Theatre and Film Alliance. The mission of the Alliance was to strengthen, promote and unify the theatre and film communities of the Twin Cities. Part of the fulfillment of this mission was the founding of this website.
In February of 2002 - the Alliance ceased running this site and the site was renamed TC Theatre and Film holding the same mission that the Alliance had- strengthening, promoting and unifying the theatre and film communities of the Twin Cities.
We do this through our on-line classifieds, newsletter, resource directory, classes, the new Searchable Artist and Technican Database, the message board and performing arts calendar at the TC Theatre and Film Community and our involvement with events such as the Twin Cities Unified Auditions.
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| | Live theater is thriving in the San Fernando Valley area.
This website is where you can come to locate where, what and when.
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| | VTA is organized and operated as a non-stock corporation, exclusively for non-profit educational, artistic, and charitable purposes. Generally, its purpose shall be to foster, encourage, and assist in the practice and study of the theatre arts in Virginia on all levels.
VTA fosters communication and supportive links among arts associations, professional and non-professional theatre workers, theatre educators, and students; works to improve theatre production and training; and serves as the voice of the theatre in the Commonwealth of VA. VTA is the state’s official representative to the Southeastern Theatre Conference, of which VTA is an affiliate. (Excerpted from the VTA Bylaws) | |
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