TCG Events
TCG regularly convenes various meetings throughout the country, bringing theatre professionals together and encouraging them to explore significant issues, to share their knowledge and experience and to learn from one another and those in related fields. As the primary representative of the not-for-profit theatre field, TCG often collaborates with organizations in other disciplines to develop interdisciplinary conferences and forums.
TCG's 2008 National Conference
June 10-14, 2008
Denver, CO
The 2008 National Conference will be held in conjunction with the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention: Taking Action Together in Denver, Colorado, from June 10-14, 2008. We will join with the rest of the performing arts field at the Colorado Convention Center and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in an exploration of the performing arts sector and its place in American culture. In addition, there will be specific TCG programming at the Denver Center Theatre Company. For more information, please visit the conference page, or send an e-mail to conference@tcg.org.
Expanding the Theatre Manager's Repertoire
August 10–12, 2008
Charleston, SC
For the eleventh and final year, TCG and Target Corporation are pleased to offer this popular and invaluable human resources training program. Building on Target's own human resources training methods, the seminar is specifically tailored for theatre managers.
Free Night of Theater
Free Night 2008 launches across the contry on October 16, 2008
The idea for Free Night of Theater is so simple, it can be easy to miss how ground-breaking it is and how remarkably effective it has proven to be. As far as we know, there is no program of similar scope in any other arts discipline. Many individual theatres and many regional service organizations have free ticket giveaways or discounted ticket programs, but Free Night has several unique components that set it apart from those programs.
First, it is a community-wide (and soon-to-be nationwide) program offering tickets to a broad range of performances. Second, from the outset, the program has gone beyond one-night success stories to focus on to what happens after a participant sees a show for free. Participating theatres are offered tools, suggestions, and training on how best to work with Free Night patrons to encourage them to return, and retention rates and patterns are carefully measured. Finally, Free Night is aimed at people who can (and do) become paying customers, while still successfully reaching groups that are currently under-represented in theatre audiences.
Put together, these elements add up to what really makes Free Night unique as an audience development initiative—it works. Year after year, in city after city, this program has reached people who don’t go to the theatre, given them a memorable cultural experience, and converted a startling number of them into regular attendees.
In 2008, TCG will continue to work closely with APASO organizations and arts councils as managing partners to produce Free Night. Complete program guidelines, participation criteria and research details are now available on the TCG website. More details.
TCG's 2007 National Conference
June 7-9, 2007
Minneapolis, MN
TCG is delighted to announce that the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been selected as the site for the 2007 TCG National Conference. The conference, which will be hosted by the Twin Cities theatre community, will be held in the new Guthrie Theater facilities from June 7-9, 2007, with a possible pre-conference day on June 6th. For more information, contact National Conference Director Jenni Werner.
TCG's 2006 National Conference
June 8-10, 2006
TCG held its 16th National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia at the Woodruff Arts Center (home to the Alliance Theatre) from June 8-10, 2006, with a pre-conference program on June 8. Over 650 participants attended the conference.
For information on some of our past events, visit our Event Archives.