Management Roundtable 2019

Please gather in the Hampton Inn lobby at 6:30pm for transportation to the Miller Theatre. If you’re meeting us at the theatre, please arrive before 8pm or your tickets will be released to the public.

“In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, this is going to be the most epic show ever produced at Miller Outdoor Theatre,” says TUTS Artistic Director Dan Knechtges, who will direct and choreograph the production. “This touching musical is the perfect show to launch our new Public Works Houston initiative because it speaks to the power of creativity and how it can positively impact our communities.”

Theatre Under The Stars Public Works Houston is a community engagement program that seeks to connect with the people of Houston by inviting them to be creators and not just spectators. This nine-month program culminates in the musical theatre company’s summer show in July at Miller Outdoor Theatre when individuals from the community partners participate in the production with professional actors and artists.

Through the Public Works Houston initiative, TUTS provides tailored programming for four community partners – Dress for Success Houston, Wesley Community Center, New Hope Housing Reed, and YMCA of Greater Houston.

Public Works Houston is an affiliate of the Public Theater’s highly-successful Public Works program in New York City, founded in 2013.

Reserve your tickets when you register.

Join us for breakfast (included with your Hampton Inn stay), before we head to the TUTS offices to begin our Roundtable.

We will depart from the Hampton Inn at 8:45 am.

If you’re traveling to TUTS on your own, the offices are located across the breezeway from the Hobby Center Building. You will see the entrance to the Humphreys School, look to the right of those doors and you’ll see a single  glass door with an elevator inside. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor, where you’ll find the TUTS offices. Please check in with their receptionist.

How can your theatre partner with other organizations to become a destination in and a service to your community? How does this fit with your mission and programming?

How do you expand engagement beyond your four walls? What are the best ways to ask and listen to the community, to respect what they want and need? Where does this work intersect with what you do “at home?”

Participants will share how (or if) community engagement is set up at their organizations. Is there a dedicated staff? Is it part of another department? Who controls or guides the programming? What have you found works and what doesn’t? If you’re just getting started, what do you most want to know? Every theatre and community is different, so we’ll discuss a wide range of possibilities across the NAMT membership.

How do you get everyone in your organization on board and excited about integrating the work that you’re doing throughout the organization? How do you build successful marketing strategies of the programs you are doing when the work itself may not directly generate revenue?

Q&A with The Public Theater, Seattle Rep and TUTS about how the Public Works program came to be, and how theatres around the country have adopted and adapted it to suit their spaces and cities.

Theatre can be a catalyst for a community’s healing process, and a theatre – both the building and the art – can be a resource in a time of crisis. We’ll hear from experts at the Houston Arts Alliance about Houston’s recovery after Hurricane Harvey, and more.

A second opportunity to see Seussical for those who can’t make it on Thursday. Reserve your tickets when you register.