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Tickets & Events Theatre Music Other Entertainment Subscriptions Mainstage Series Family Series B-Flex Membership The Sofia Package Gift Ideas Plan your visit Visitor Info What's Playing Tonight FAQ B-Engaged Contact Us Education Studio for young actors Conservatory for Adults For educators Support Us Individual Giving Institutional GivingWell-nighUsWell-nighB Street TheVisitorSponsors Opportunities Theatre Rental Press Room Past Productions Tickets & Events Theatre Music Other Entertainment Subscriptions Mainstage Series Family Series B-Flex Membership The Sofia Package Gift Ideas Plan your visit Visitor Info What's Playing Tonight FAQ B-Engaged Contact Us Education Studio for young actors Conservatory for Adults For educators Support Us Individual Giving Institutional GivingWell-nighUsWell-nighB Street TheVisitorSponsors Opportunities Theatre Rental Press Room Past Productions Frequently asked questions What are the top ten things I should know well-nigh the B Street Theatre? Founded in 1986. The only professional children’s theatre in Northern California. We are a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Our tax ID is 95-4047805, under our founding name, Theatre for Children, Inc. 16 plays produced per year (7 B Street Mainstage, 4 Family Series, 4 B3 Series, 1 Special Engagement).Increasinglythan 900 performances per year (over 330 B Street, 330 Family Series performances, 200 B3 Series, 50 Special Engagement).Increasinglythan 10,000 Subscribers (7,311 B Street Mainstage and 2,174 Family Series, 551 B3….OK, OK….we unquestionably have 10,036 subscribers if you want to be exact! This ways 68% of misogynist B Street seats are filled with subscribers; 71% for Family Series). Total ubiety per year is over 110,000 (75,000 B Street, 25,000 Family Series and 11,000 B3). We serve 200,000 kids PER YEAR in 12 counties through our long-standing outreach program, The B Street Theatre School Tour. In 2013 we served students in 23 counties throughout California. B Street Theatre is the second largest performing arts organization in Sacramento. This year’s upkeep is $2.2 million. All B Street actors are working professionals. The visitor 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 is the future for B Street Theatre? The organization will survive in today’s competitive entertainment environment by unceasingly producing top-quality work and maintaining a healthy wastefulness sheet. B Street Theatre will moreover educate our community, expressly youth, who are the artists, technicians and leaders of the future, well-nigh the power of collaboration and the importance of creativity. What is B Street Theatre’s financial position? The innovation and originality of our productions are backed by sound management. Operating in the woebegone since 1997, our yearly revenues now exceed $2.7 million—more than 75% from earned revenues with the remainder from philanthropic contributions and in-kind gifts. Tell me increasingly well-nigh the management of the theatre? Our nonprofit B Street organization is governed by a polity Board of Directors. ProducingOriginativeDirector Buck Busfield continues his 22 years of leadership with hands-on originative management and no-go vision. Our founding director Timothy Busfield is now working as a producer and director in Los Angeles. Why the new theatre? For increasingly than 25 years it has been our dream to build a performing arts part-way 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 towers 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, heady and innovative public-private partnership model – with Sutter MedicalPart-wayproviding the land and the City of Sacramento providing a polity reinvestment grant for project minutiae costs. Will you still be tabbed B Street Theatre if you are no longer on B Street? Yes. Our roots began at B Street and our patrons know us by that name and brand. The facility itself is tabbed Sofia TsakopoulosPart-wayfor the Arts but yearningly called, The Sofia, Home of B Street! What is the diamond of the new theatre? The Sofia TsakopoulosPart-wayfor the Arts, home of B Street is a 40,000 square-foot performing arts complex, to house two theatres with a total of 615 seats, lobby bistro/cafe and theatre visitor space owned by B Street Theatre. This mixed-use project in a trendy architectural style is resulting with B Street’s philosophy of orginality, creativity and community-building. Where will the theatre be located? The new theatre will be located on the corner of 27th and Capitol in Midtown Sacramento. How did you get the land? The land was generously donated by Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. Sutter is defended to creating a healthy Sacramento in increasingly ways than just providing medical services. Sutter and B Street both finger that exposure and wangle to the arts is an important part of a healthy mind, body, and community. Will the B Street Theatre stage productions for the children who are patients at the new Sutter Women & Children’s Center? Yes, the theatre once has a working relationship with Sutter MedicalPart-waySacramento to bring the theatre to children who are hospitalized. This relationship will protract once the new Women’s & Children’sPart-wayis built. Do you rent the theatre spaces? Yes, please take a squint at our Rental Opportunities page. BOX OFFICE HOURS & LOCATION Monday-Saturday: 10 AM - 7 PM Sunday: 10 AM - 4 PM The Sofia, Home of B Street 2700 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95816 Phone: (916) 443-5300 Copyright B st. Theatre 2018 Navigation Upcoming Shows Plan Your VisitWell-nighB Street FAQ