Newsletter

Entertainment Law: Theater & Stage Law

Legal Consulting and In-Court Representation

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.

Drafting & Negotiating Contracts

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: