New Leader for a Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis

Tim Jennings was recently named the managing director for the Children’s Theatre Co. in Minneapolis. He had the same position at the Seattle Children’s Theatre for the past four years. Jennings will be replacing the previous managing director, Gabriella Calicchio, who is leaving CTC because she will be taking a job at the Disney museum in San Francisco. Tim Jennings will be leading the company as a co-lead with Peter Brosius. Brosius is the Children’s Theatre Co’s artistic director.

The Children’s Theatre Co is the largest theatre for youth in the nation. The theatre is repairing its balance sheet after several years of deficits.

I found this article to be interesting and informative. Although it was short, I was to the point. I find it interesting how theatre companies work. It is much like any other company, once one leader leaves, his or her place must be filled. Jennings seems to be a very experienced leader and he seems to be interested in the field that he is in. I enjoyed reading this article to learn more about how jobs can be empty and filled so quickly.

SOU Theatre Students Recognized for Stage Management

A Director of the Yale School of Drama Master in Fine Arts program in Stage Management has notified SOU’s student, Robert Chikar as one of the four students in the nation that would be accepted into the program for this year. Chikar will receive full tuition remission and he will receive an assistantship that will allow him to work with leading directors, designers, and performers from around the world. Another student stage manager at SOU, Kim Freimoeller, won the KCACTF Region 7’s award for excellence in Stage Management. She won an all expense paid trip to the Kennedy Center to attend workshops and career development seminars.

            I found this article to be extremely interesting because of how much success one school is having in one area of theatre. They must have great leadership leading them in order to have this much success. I also enjoyed reading this article because we were just learning about grad school in Career Prep class. It was interesting to see that there really is an interst for stage managers for grad school and stage management can go for if they know what they are doing and talking about. SOU seems to be putting out excellent work. 

http://news.sou.edu/blog/2011/02/sou-theatre-students-recognized-for-stage-management/

Marburg’s Management Change

Ekkehard Dennewitz has been the head of the Marburg’s Hessian State Theatre for 20 years. He is not handing over his job to Matthias Faltz the new director of Marburg’s theatre company.

            The young generation of Marburg are very curious about the new manager. It is Falz’s goal to attract the younger generation by producing fresh and modern shows. He will also be instituting a new event called “theatre of darkness,” in order to stay with Marburg’s position of the city of the blind.

            Faltz is also opening two smaller theatre companies in Marburg to add to their four that they already have. Everyone enjoys Marburg productions even the tourists. The companies tour all over Hesse, and even visits foreign countries.

            I found this article very interesting to read. I liked it because of how excited the new leader is about the production company. He is ready to make changes for the greater good of the community and he is adding new events and things to make everyone happy to be able to enjoy theatre.

https://www.marburg.de/en/94473

Le Petit Theatre Management

     As heard on October 24th, a meeting of the executive committee of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre’s board of governors would result in a marked shift in management. No one from the committee is ready to talk about what exactly happened during the meeting. The word keeps being spread that “Le Petit Theatre is undergoing a transition in management,” according to Le Petit’s board president, Cassie Worley. Gary Solomon Jr. is currently the manager at Le Petit and he did not have anything different to add to what Worley said about the management situation. He did explain that his job as manager was only supposed to be a temporary situation and that Le Petit has come to the understanding that it is time to establish a more permanent management structure. 

     There is more to come about what will be the outcome of Le Petit’s management situation. They are working on finding a permanent structure and they do not want to leak too much information to the press as of right now.

     This article was interesting to read because it shows the reality about theatre management. It shows how fast the word gets out and how fast something can be changed when it needs to be. Through this article we do not know if the change in management is because of Solomon or for other reasons be something must have went wrong somewhere. I am excited to see what is to come about this story. 

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/10/le_petit_theatre_management_in.html