Theater & Stage Law

WINHELLER Attorneys at Law provide legal advice to regional, community, and state theaters, private theaters, opera houses, musical theaters, Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, repertory theaters, postmodern theaters, vanguard style theaters, improvisational theaters, and festival and event managers of all kinds (fringe, temple dance, etc.) on copyright, trademark, labor, financial, and tax law issues in Germany and internationally. We especially represent art directors, theater-managers, producers, authors, composers, conductors, playwrights, choreographers, performing artists, actresses and actors, ensembles, opera and operetta singers, lighting technicians, Props, scene-painters, costume designers, make-up artists, festival technicians, choirs, and orchestras. We also advise theater funds, stage associations, and marketing divisions of musical and other theaters.

We represent our clients before the civil, labor, and tax courts as well as in stage arbitration proceedings.

We draft and negotiate contracts. In order to render a theater and stage production successful, solid and diligently drafted agreements are essential to acquire licenses and to lay solid legal foundations for all participants. WINHELLER Attorneys at Law stand for the drafting and negotiating of quality contracts which live up to international standards.

We draft and negotiate in particular:

• First-class production agreements
• Associate producer agreements
• Collaboration agreements
• Co-production agreements
• Co-producer/stockholders agreements
• West End contracts
• Non-profit companies production agreements
• Staged reading director agreements
• License agreements
• Option contracts
• Securing stage rights
• Book writer agreements
• Front-front money agreements
• General manager agreements
• Musical director agreements
• Musical composer agreements
• Musical arranger agreements
• Literary purchase agreements
• Contracts to commission an adaptor
• Guest performance agreements
• Purchase of Grand performing rights agreements
• Sale of a life story for a theater play
• Agreements commissioning playwrights
• Original cast album agreements
• Hold fast director and choreographer agreements
• LLC Operating agreements
• Articles of organization
• Limited partnership agreements
• Contracts for first-class equity tours
• Festival and event agreement
• Work-made-for-hire agreements
• Promotion agreements
• Insurance contracts

Your contact person for all issues related to theater law and stage law is Atty. Dr. Christian Seyfert. Please contact us by e-mail (info@winheller.com) or by phone (+49 69 76 75 77 80).