Ron Kurtz

Most of Ronald Kurtz’s career in the entertainment business has been spent working with live acts of all genres on stages, theaters and casinos, across the country.  He has been developing and producing live performances since his first successful concert in 1964 at a high school football field.  At this time sports facilities had never been used for live concerts, so this was a beginning of a new entertainment era. 

2019 marked the 55th anniversary of Ron’s time in the entertainment business.  This includes management of acts, development of live theater shows, the production of live traveling shows and even work on a couple of motion pictures.  He even produced the first major “Rock Jam” at the now defunct Ontario Raceway in Ontario, California.  At the time it was the largest outdoor festival held on the West Coast.
 
In the mid-1980’s the 1978 movie “National Lampoon's Animal House” was released on VHS and it developed an entirely new audience, college fraternities.  Ron tracked down the actor that played Otis Day from the movie’s band “Otis Day and the Knights”, DeWayne Jessie.  Soon he purchased the rights to the band's name from Universal Studios and formed a real-life version of the band.  They have been touring ever since.
 
Kurtz has now produced over 4,000 concerts and shows including Three Dog Night, John Denver, Barry Manilow, Tina Turner, and Martina McBride just to name a few.  He was also responsible for bringing entertainment to many casinos including Caesar’s Palace, the MGM Grand, Horseshoe Casino’s, Bally’s Las Vegas, the Tropicana and the Trump Hotels in Atlantic City.
 
His new company “3,000 Miles Off Broadway Musicals” (a division of “30th Anniversary of Rock n’ Roll, Inc.”) with Gary Grantham as artistic director, is proud to be producing shows at the Historic El Portal Theater in the NO-HO district of North Hollywood, California.
 
According to Kurtz, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the most difficult problem he’s had to deal with in his over 50 years in showbusiness, but he can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and he’s looking forward to getting things back to normal.