League of Resident Theatres

... which is the largest nonprofit theater in the US.

And, uh, we met through the League of Resident Theatres, which is like the Major League Baseball of American theater.

The largest theaters predominantly are in, in that group.

And-

While the League and the theatrical unions are sometimes at loggerheads during those periods when new contracts are being negotiated, they also cooperate on many projects and events designed to promote professional theater in New York.

All four of the four nonprofit theater companies with Broadway theaters, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theater Company, and Second Stage Theater, belong to the League of Resident Theaters and have contracts with the theatrical unions, which are negotiated separately from the other Broadway theater and producers.

The majority of Broadway theaters are owned or managed by three organizations, the Schubert Organization, a for-profit arm of the nonprofit Schubert Foundation, which owns 17 theaters, the Nederlander Organization, which controls nine theaters, and ATG Entertainment, which owns seven Broadway houses.

Both musicals and straight plays on Broadway often rely on casting well-known performers in leading roles to draw larger audiences or bring in new audience members to the theater.

It had become the largest theater Theater in the History of the State at the time I left.

It was a fully professional equity theater, a member of the League of Resident Theaters, LORT, the acronym for that group, and it no longer is there.

It went out of business a few years after I left, unfortunately, but it was a very important time in my career, in my life, those years in New Mexico.

Why did you choose Santa Fe, New Mexico from New York? I was driving.

It doesn't track Broadway.

It tracks regional theater productions all over the US, um, LORT theaters.

So you have to be a member of, of LORT.

So that does exclude some companies who are not self-selected to be LORT, um, in the league of regional theaters.

Um, And so what's interesting about this list is it really doesn't talk about commercial theater.

This is not-for-profit theater.