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To wire or not to wire your new home theater system. Here’s an overview of the pluses and minuses.

This is a great article about the changing face of the arts - and how it has to be based on serving people - not just artists. “We must invent new reasons for people to venture out into the dark and the heat and the traffic to come to our programs. We must develop innovative programs that provide new revenue streams and make us less dependent on unpredictable individual ticket sales and contributed income.”

Follow these steps to build a home entertainment theater in your home.

COVID-19 has brought about many significant shifts in consumer behavior, but there's one which is now having a direct impact on the not-for-profit theater world. This change has made it challenging for some theaters to maintain pre-pandemic production and staffing levels. Check out this interesting analysis on how the pandemic has affected the theater industry and what it's trying to do to build back one of its most crucial sources of funding.

Today's decision by New York Governor Kathy Hochul to indefinitely put off implementing congestion pricing has plenty of people in the New York City tri-state area relieved. It would have imposed an added $15 cost on cars entering New York City below 60th Street. One sector that should be pleased about the move is Broadway. The entire theatre district is located within the congestion pricing area. Traditionally, a third of Broadway tickets are sold to residents of the greater New York City region. And not all of those show goers take mass transit to get there. In fact, concerns over late trains or buses, or poor transit options, drive plenty of audience members to get in the car and head to Midtown. It's no secret that Broadway tickets are expensive. So is gas. Drivers have already traveled toll roads to get to the city. And if street parking is unavailable, well, garages can cost $30, $40 and even $50 for an evening. Want to grab dinner? A drink? You're looking at a very costly night out. Broadway ticket sales to buyers in the tri-state have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. An added cost just to get to the theatre was not going to help bring them back. #Broadway #Theatre #NYC

If you are having trouble setting up or upgrading your home theater, here are 3 common pain points and how to solve them.

Did you know that our suburban audience is down 27% from pre-pandemic levels?  That's a lot of butts in seats that could keep shows open longer and more theatermakers employed.  Honored to be chairing a subcommittee on getting those 'burban audiences back to Broadway more regularly.  Business 101 says that it's always easier to get those who have purchased your product before to purchase again . . . so look out, suburbs.  We're coming for you.  And if you're a suburban audience . . . tell me, what can we do to get you back to Broadway, or get you coming more often? #Broadway #BusinessOfBroadway #BroadwayData

🚨🚨🚨 Blog#91: As much as I would like for everyone to read something I poured my heart and soul into…here are the CLIFF NOTES and my goal is to make this go viral so SHARE, SHARE, SHARE. The #theater on post is in desperate need of our #FOUR upcoming #FREEAPPRECIATIONSCREENINGS to be a success. Like other theaters, we are slowly losing #profitability and I have argued that a part of the reason is a lack of awareness of existence. This is not me taking it into my own hands, this is more so me doing whatever I can with the hope of saving a place that has been just as much of my adult life as it was my childhood. I can’t let the memory of #RayHubbard be diminished for the lack of trying and it needs to start this weekend with our #FREE showing of #TheMarvels. Tell a friend to tell a friend to come out and support as it literally costs you nothing this weekend, nor will it for our other upcoming FREE SHOWINGS. Your #support today helps keep our movies playing tomorrow...and I don’t know about you, but, I’m just not ready for this #movie to end. The Marvels 11.11.23 @ 1PM FREE A Place In The Field 11.18.23 @ 3PM FREE Napoleon 11.19.23 @ 3PM FREE Silent Night 11.25.23 @ 3PM FREE #TheFadedInk #TheMarvels #APlaceInTheField #Napoleon #SilentNight #Novosel #Rucker #Marvel #SaveTheTheater #Autonomy #Concessions #SocialMedia #Military #Appreciation #contentcreation #marketing

"London’s theater world is increasingly simmering with complaints over soaring ticket prices, and a perception that they are creeping closer to Broadway levels. Even as producers insist that a fraction of tickets must be sold at steep prices to offset cheap seats for low earners, concern is growing that a night at the theater is becoming an unaffordable luxury... This year’s results... showed that the average price for tickets in the most expensive price group was £141, or about $170 (a decade ago, the figure was a much lower £81). This year’s average was still “a long, long way behind Broadway... However... the average price of the least expensive tickets had risen by more than inflation to £25, or $30... For many West End producers, the perception of a price hike is a source of growing frustration. Patrick Gracey, a producer who sits on the board of the Society of London Theater, said that the news media published articles about high ticket prices because it “gets clicks.” Those stories were “misleading audiences about the availability of affordable tickets,” he said. Last year, Gracey said, theatergoers paid an average £54, or about $66, to see a West End show. (The average price on Broadway last week was double that at $125, according to data from The Broadway League.) Producers were facing soaring costs, Gracey added... Even with those pressures, Gracey said producers were working to keep theater accessible and were offering cheap tickets for those who couldn’t splurge. The problem was with audience perception, said Nick Hytner, a co-founder of the Bridge Theater. Producers needed to develop “a compelling counternarrative” that theater was affordable or else young people would decide that the art form wasn’t for them. Discounting the worst seats at the back of cramped Victorian theaters didn’t cut it, he said, adding that theaters need to develop more innovative approaches to pricing." #westend #broadway #theatre #theater https://nyti.ms/3QzGrPr

Alienism, Mediating Media  In the future kind of humans will take away from boundaries like time and space. Also, the theaters will take a step toward giving the sense of unlimited to users. But, with the same feelings and awakened elements which are the parts of the soul of theaters.  the concept is that each person in his or her own space can have a balcony for watching the theater without considering time and space.  This process of evolving the theaters from open-air spaces to roofed spaces from the past will go toward creating theater without space without time limitations or other considerations.