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Programs & Services
The League’s Programs and Services are designed to provide opportunities for historic theatres to learn how to:
Dedicated to sustaining America's historic theatres, the League has been making a strategic transition from an organization best known for a membership that helps save historic theatres to a membership increasingly concerned with the tools, techniques and technologies of sustaining historic theatres at the hearts of their communities. The League is shifting its focus in order to better sustain the field and assist emerging theatres.
Historic American theatres are successful survivors. Their longevity is due to managements who constantly adapt their programming, operations and facilities to remain relevant to the communities who embrace them. The key benefit of membership is having access to a national network of resources and practitioners, professionals with extensive knowledge, experience and wisdom. Through research, experience and peer exchanges, League members share resources and information for improving their theatres, their businesses and their communities. (View a list of LHAT member theatres.)
The nation's number one online theatre reference service - LHAT-CHAT - is a source of innovative ideas on a seemingly endless array of issues historic theatres face on a daily basis. Many members say having access to the information they gain from talking directly with their peers is worth the price of membership alone!
COMING SOON! LHAT will transform its wildly popular listserv into a new online community designed just to serve the needs of LHAT members. Using a new, cutting-edge online community platform, the new LHAT Network will allow members to identify their own specific areas of interest and expertise and to segment themselves into communities, E-groups, based on relevant topic areas and individual and theatre-related demographics.
Like the current LHAT-CHAT and similar to other popular social networking sites like Linked In and Facebook, through the new Network members will be able to participate in discussions, share documents, save, rank and recommend all types of web-based resources, create, track and respond to blogs, and more.
Access to some services is available to members only, including:
- The LHAT-CHAT listserv and its archives.
- Online resources, such as handouts and presentations from past conferences and forums, articles from past publications, sample theatre job descriptions, policies and manuals, etc.
- The Online Member Directory, which includes information about the service provider and supplier members who specialize in historic theatres, as well as demographics about each of our member theatres
- Listing in our Online Theatre Inventory with direct links to member theatres' websites.
Members also receive discounts on LHAT's professional development and networking offerings, including registration fees for the Annual Conference and Theatre Tour and other programs. Some League programs and services are available to both members and nonmembers, with higher rates for nonmembers.