• A collection of essays written by theatre practitioners and experts with track records of successful audience engagement• Discusses findings from TCG's ongoing assessments and research of the field, as well as findings from cross-disciplinary sources• Explores current audience engagement and community development models in the field• Dynamic essays that aim to connect with their theatre peers to share successful strategies• Every essay is selected from Svich’s work with the “TCG Circle,” the national professional theatre blog. The essays come from a salon about audience engagement, a forum curated by Svich.• An important book for the theatre field and university theatre schools.• The book’s editor, Caridad Svich, is a widely-respected writer and editor in the theatre field• Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre.• Svich was honored with a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for her play Guapa.• Svich won the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.
