Playwrights, take note.
Certainly an improvement. Still, I'd love to know how much actual money is generated for institutions like the Roundabout by subsequent productions? Especially considering how little playwrights make generally as it is. If the Roundabout, or any other company like it, took exactly zero dollars from playwrights, would that significantly reduce their bottom line?
I'm curious, that's all. I acknowledge that large theatrical institutions help establish plays and therefore often create the subsequent productions by the very act of producing them. Still, playwrights do not, as a rule, earn a living from their work as a rule at this point. Is there some better way for companies to generate operating budget? Or are subsidiary rights a larger piece of the pie than I realize?
Anyone out there have numbers on this?
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