Theatrical company management
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Company management in a theatre
or a traveling company entails all of the traveling, accommodation and day-to-day needs of the acting, design and technical company members. In regional theatre
s it often includes renting apartments and hotel rooms, booking plane tickets, orchestrating furnishings and cleanings for rented apartments, and dealing with any special needs and requests. Company managers will also often coordinate auditions and aid in contracting actors and creatives.
In a traveling company the company manager also arranges for travel and housing, but might also travel with the production.
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
or a traveling company entails all of the traveling, accommodation and day-to-day needs of the acting, design and technical company members. In regional theatre
Regional theatre in the United States
Regional theaters, or resident theaters, in the United States are professional or semi-professional, theater companies that produce their own seasons. The term regional theatre most often refers to professional theatres outside of New York City...
s it often includes renting apartments and hotel rooms, booking plane tickets, orchestrating furnishings and cleanings for rented apartments, and dealing with any special needs and requests. Company managers will also often coordinate auditions and aid in contracting actors and creatives.
In a traveling company the company manager also arranges for travel and housing, but might also travel with the production.