What are the Top 10 Things I should know about the B Street Theatre?
- Founded in 1986
- 16 plays produced per year (7 B Street Mainstage, 4 Family Series, 4 B3 Series, 1 Special Engagement)
- More than 900 performances per year (over 330 B Street, 330 Family Series performances, 200 B3 Series, 50 Special Engagement)
- More than 10,000 Subscribers (7,311 B Street Mainstage and 2,174 Family Series, 551 B3….OK, OK….we actually have 10,036 subscribers if you want to be exact! This means 68% of available B Street seats are filled with subscribers; 71% for Family Series)
- Music Circus, with a 2,000-seat venue, has 11,000 subscribers. Sacramento Theatre Company has 2,800.
- Total attendance per year is over 110,000 (75,000 B Street, 25,000 Family Series and 11,000 B3)
- Music Circus’ total attendance per year is 130,000. Sacramento Theatre Company’s is approximately 48,000.
- We serve 200,000 kids PER YEAR in 12 counties through our long-standing outreach program, The B Street Theatre School Tour.
- B Street Theatre is the second largest performing arts organization in Sacramento. This year’s budget is $2.2 million.
- All B Street actors are working professionals. The company casts from a small pool of local professionals as well as from professional, union actors residing in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Each year, the Theatre spends over $900,000 on professional talent.
What are the specifics of the performance programs?
- B Street Theatre School Tour. It all started when we took the rich experience of live theatre into schools throughout Northern California. Our innovative approach has provided cultural enrichment to more than 2.5 million school children and youth in underserved communities throughout the 12 counties that surround Sacramento. In 1989 our B Street School Tour was named “Honorary Children’s Theatre of California” by California’s Secretary of State.
- B Street Theatre Mainstage. Not content to rest on our laurels as a groundbreaking children’s theatre company, we broadened our scope in 1991 by creating the B Street Theatre Mainstage with new plays for adults. Since then we have delivered thought-provoking productions to more than 600,000 people. Many plays produced each year are world, national, West Coast or regional premieres. Much honored locally and regionally, B Street Theatre has been named “Top performing small professional theatre” west of the Mississippi by the Actors Equity Association.
- B Street Family Series. In the spring of 2002 we expanded our children’s programming with the B Street Family Series, which offers performances of new works and classic children’s literature in a fixed theatre setting. Children and families enjoy these lively productions throughout the school year with performances for school field trips during the week and for the public on weekends. Curriculum materials are developed for each Family Series production, and teachers are encouraged to develop classroom lessons based on themes from each play.
- B3 Series. With B Street Theatre subscriptions SOLD OUT for another season, we realized that the demand for more theatre from the B Street model was too compelling to be ignored. We introduced our newest program in 2007 with the B3 Series, which shares space with the Family Series. Taking a more serious, dramatic focus with new contemporary plays for the more sophisticated theatergoer, B3 opened with the Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole.
What else does the theatre organization have to offer?
In addition to our four performance programs, we continue to offer classes in technique and scene study to adults through our B Street Conservatory and to provide professional theatre experience through our B Street Internship program. Our summer camp program for kids is an important part of our outreach and education effort.
In addition to our four performance programs, we continue to offer classes in technique and scene study to adults through our B Street Conservatory and to provide professional theatre experience through our B Street Internship program. Our summer camp program for kids is an important part of our outreach and education effort.
What is the future for B Street Theatre?
The organization will survive in today’s competitive entertainment environment by consistently producing top-quality work and maintaining a healthy balance sheet. B Street Theatre will also educate our community, especially youth, who are the artists, technicians and leaders of the future, about the power of collaboration and the importance of creativity.
The organization will survive in today’s competitive entertainment environment by consistently producing top-quality work and maintaining a healthy balance sheet. B Street Theatre will also educate our community, especially youth, who are the artists, technicians and leaders of the future, about the power of collaboration and the importance of creativity.
Will the B Street Theatre stage productions for the children who are patients at the new Sutter Women & Children’s Center?
Yes, the theatre already has a working relationship with Sutter Medical Center Sacramento to bring the theatre to children who are hospitalized. This relationship will continue once the new Women's & Children’s Center is built.
Yes, the theatre already has a working relationship with Sutter Medical Center Sacramento to bring the theatre to children who are hospitalized. This relationship will continue once the new Women's & Children’s Center is built.
What is B Street Theatre’s financial position?
The innovation and originality of our productions are backed by sound management. Operating in the black since 1997, our annual revenues now exceed $2.7 million—more than 75% from earned revenues with the remainder from philanthropic contributions and in-kind gifts.
The innovation and originality of our productions are backed by sound management. Operating in the black since 1997, our annual revenues now exceed $2.7 million—more than 75% from earned revenues with the remainder from philanthropic contributions and in-kind gifts.
Tell me more about the management of the theatre?
Our nonprofit B Street organization is governed by a community Board of Directors. Producing Artistic Director Buck Busfield continues his 22 years of leadership with hands-on artistic management and extraordinary vision. Our founding director Timothy Busfield is now working as a producer and director in Los Angeles.
Our nonprofit B Street organization is governed by a community Board of Directors. Producing Artistic Director Buck Busfield continues his 22 years of leadership with hands-on artistic management and extraordinary vision. Our founding director Timothy Busfield is now working as a producer and director in Los Angeles.
Why the new theatre?
For more than 24 years it has been our dream to build a performing arts center that raises the quality of our facility to the quality of our productions. With a long history of steady growth, we are now poised for expansion with a new building to house our theatres, our educational programs and our staff. True to the B Street legacy, though, this isn’t going to be just any theatre. Our project represents a new, exciting and innovative public-private partnership model - with Sutter Medical Center providing the land and the City of Sacramento providing a community reinvestment grant for project development costs.
For more than 24 years it has been our dream to build a performing arts center that raises the quality of our facility to the quality of our productions. With a long history of steady growth, we are now poised for expansion with a new building to house our theatres, our educational programs and our staff. True to the B Street legacy, though, this isn’t going to be just any theatre. Our project represents a new, exciting and innovative public-private partnership model - with Sutter Medical Center providing the land and the City of Sacramento providing a community reinvestment grant for project development costs.
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