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School and Community Theatre Management by lawrence Stern.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1979. ISBN 0-205-06174-5, 340 pp.
School and Community Theater Management is a book tor beginners. It does not contain sophisticated concepts; nor does it describe
complex historical trends. It tells you how to get things done: it provides checklists, sample forms, examples. Its advice is basic but very
sound and thoroughly covers the topic.
Yet, despite its many and obvious merits, School and Community
Theater Management lacks a strong identity. The book is divided into
two sections of seven chapters each. The first two chapters of the first
section (School Theater) cover curriculum and lesson planning, while
the seventh chapter lists and describes educational theatre organizations. The other four chapters of the first section describe box office,
festival organization, publicity and accounting. These four chapters
would apply equally well to either the school or community situation.
The second section, (Community Theater) begins with a chapter on
forming a new community theater group. The next three chapters
cover constitution and by-laws, grants and fund raising. These three
chapters are quite general to most any non-profit enterprise. Chapters
twelve and thirteen deal with planning the season and recruiting an
audience. The final chapter is a list of non-educational theatrical organizations.
Author lawrence Stern cannot be faulted for the information which
the book contains. It is tight, comprehensive and simply put. Each
chapter stands well on its own. But the overall design of the book is
confusing. School and Community Theater Management is really a
book about organizing and running an amateur theatre venture
whether in a school or community context. If Stern had organized his
book on a first-thought-to-first-night basis and included his two chapters on curriculum and lesson planning as addenda he would have
produced a classic community theater handbook. As it is, he has
created a very useful book which readers may want to begin reading
somewhere near the middle.
Brian Arnott

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