**note canadian equiv types of theatre (as opposed to broadway)

biggest division - professional vs amateur

professional means that the people are paid

amateur means that most if not all people are not paid

professional:

• profit vs nonprofit (commercial/non promit)

• commercial usually funds through investment from companies
• mervish - biggest company in canada (toronto)
• commercial theatre is expensive - budgets in millions/tens of
• commercial only in a few cities (toronto, nyc, london, paris)

• nonprofit - theatre itself is making no money
• might have grants/private donations
• money coming in is usually public sector funding or from box office
• everyone is paid, nobody is making money beyond salary

2 types of nonprofit: regional vs ‘alternative’

capitals of each province have regional theatre centers - tend to have their own building attached to the company, tend to have broader types of plays

alternative is meant to be an alternative to regional, funded project to project rather than for years at a time, tend to have more specific mandates, more likely to have more risk taking/etc

alternative have two tiers: stable, supported, typically housed ones, and newer, unhoused ones

amateur companies: educational vs community

educational - high schools and college/universities, goal is usually to serve the students enrolled in that program, then to engage the community, might own a theatre space, usually get their money from the students/tuition, box office, gov’t funding, donations in kind (not money, given things), fundraising when needed, pvt donations

community - created to serve a particular community’s needs, goal is whatever that company decides, might own a theatre space, get their money from commissions, possibly grants from community, fundraising campaigns, box office usually pays for most of the costs