Hello Off-Off-Broadway Producers
and Companies!
Shay Gines here on behalf of Theatre
World. I hope you had a fantastic and very productive 2012-2013
season. I want to document and archive your theatrical activities from this
last year.
For the last 69 years, Theatre
World has been documenting Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and has become
the leading archivist of information for American Theatre. (There is more
information about Theatre World at the end of this email.) In 2009 they began
to include Off-Off-Broadway.
The editors of Theatre World
recognized the legitimacy of our community and felt that it deserved a place in
this archive.
It is so important that our
community is represented in this important work. It helps to bring to light the
importance of this sector and demonstrates, the number of productions, the
variety, the innovation and the determination of the work being created in our
community.
I need your help.
1. Please complete the online forms documenting your company's
season (see below)
2. Please forward this to your fellow OOB producers and
ask them to do the same.
What I need is your production
information from the 2012-2013 season (shows that played between June 1, 2012
and May 31, 2013), for inclusion in Volume 69, including individual production
information as well as festivals, readings, workshops, etc.
I know as an OOB producer your
time is valuable, but the annual Theatre World publications are one of the
premiere archives for American Theatre and it is so important for our community
to be represented. I ask you to take this time to provide the information
requested, so that your company's production(s) will be recorded and referenced
everywhere by theatre scholars, students, casting directors, producers, and
other industry professionals daily. In addition, it will be a part of the
permanent record of Off-Off-Broadway and placed in important research and
reference libraries from The Library of Congress to most colleges and
universities across the country.
Here’s the link to the form: http://goo.gl/QfNdxB
NOTES ON SUBMISSIONS:
- Photos of your productions: If you would like to submit
one or two production photographs (in the form of a .JPG or .TIFF file),
you may do so, as long as the pixel width is at least 1,050 pixels
wide or wider and 300dpi. If you are unsure of the photo dimensions, look
under “File Info” when viewing the photo in Preview or PhotoShop. We
cannot make enlargement adjustments to photos. (please be aware that if it
is not large enough, we will not be able to include it in the
publication).
It is very important when you submit photographs that you provide:
- photographer credit
- performer credits for all actors in the photograph. (If there are five or more performers pictured, you may choose to simply list "The Company" as the performers’ credit.)
- If no photographer credit is listed, then it will be assumed that no photographer credit is required.
Please note that due to page limitations from our publisher we regretfully have a limited numbers of photos that we can use in the Off-Off-Broadway section, and can not include all photographs submitted from every company. As there are listings for over 1,000 shows, the primary focus of the section is to feature as many listings as possible. It should be more of a priority to complete the online forms rather than hold it while you wait on retrieval of photographs from other sources. EMAIL Photos (.JPG, and/or .TIFF FILES) with the title of the production in the subject line or questions to: TWOffOff@gmail.com - Rental Space & Production Company: If you are a rental space only and not a production company, we would appreciate if you could forward this email to the companies that rented your facility, or look through your records of rentals between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013, and if you do have the time and the resources complete the form for shows that were performed in your space during that time.
- Off-Broadway: If any of your productions were actually under an Off-Broadway contract, please email that information separately to twoffoff@gmail.com and I'll forward that it on appropriately. For the purposes of this e-mail, I am currently just asking for the Off-Off-Broadway information. If the production extended under an Off-Broadway contract, please note in the text.
PLEASE SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS BY NOVEMBER 15, 2013 TO ENSURE INCLUSION IN THE 2012-2013 EDITION OF THEATRE WORLD!
Our publisher is making every
effort to release this volume early in 2014, so we need to get your submissions
as soon as possible. Since we are under a tight schedule, it is virtually
impossible for our staff to research and compile all of the Off-Off-Broadway
listings for this volume and we are relying on your help to make sure we
include as many productions as possible.
Theatre World is the oldest pictorial and
statistical record of the American theatre, published annually as a hardcover
book by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (America's foremost publisher of
theatre and cinema books) and has been continually published since 1945. It is
the most comprehensive and definitive record of Broadway, Off-Broadway,
regional theatre, and Off-Off-Broadway (which is where you come in), and
is available for purchase at many fine online establishments, including applausepub.com, amazon.com , or barnesandnoble.com.
Thank you for your cooperation in
helping us to maintain the most complete annual record of the American theatre!
Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Thanks again.
Shay Gines
OOB
Editor Theatre World v69
