Monday, October 20, 2014
Though I don’t cite him very often, I keep an eye on the blog of Broadway producer Ken Davenport because he tends to ask questions about how Broadway can do a better job of serving the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
I thought I would talk a little about performance contracts today. It may not have been in relation to performance contracts, but I recently read that many people are under the impression th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
CityLab had an article on the changing role of libraries in communities which was based on a longer piece about the Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library (CML). As I have mentioned before, I fr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:49PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
An underlying theme of many of my posts has been about the importance of acknowledging that failure and mistakes are part of the artistic development process. A recent post by Justin Brady o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
When the entertainment tax in Spain skyrocketed, attendance at shows fell precipitously. To lure people back, one comedy theater company instituted a program where people would only pay if t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
I was listening to the radio yesterday when they mentioned the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I was amazed to learn the researchers had gained some insight in to how w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
You may have seen that the St. Louis Symphony experienced a pop-up protest urging a change of attitude in light of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. I have looked at reporting on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
My mother sent me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies today. This sort of thing has been going on for a few years. She has been finding these new cookie recipes which she swears are better t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Do you ever sit in your office, thinking wistfully of the days when you were a kid and you would run around the playground, playing games and swinging on the swings? Do you think your audien…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:21PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
Andrew Taylor tweeted today that he would be speaking about theater spaces this week in Taipei and linked to a video of the Taipei Performing Arts Center. At first I thought Andrew was going…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
I listened in on an National Endowment for the Arts webinar today that was billed as addressing arts education. But the reality was, the speaker, Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute see…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Last Wednesday was Ask A Curator Day in which over 700 international museums participated, answering questions about their collections and museums in general. The effort reminded me of an ar…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
At a loss about how to forge closer bonds between the community and your organization? Let them bake bread! Not only do you have the example of Bread and Puppet Theater, to inspire you but t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Drew McManus is fulfilling one of my ambitions. When I was first starting out this blog, I envisioned creating some sort of repository of information about arts and arts administration that …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
It is fortunate that I am not often able to relate how I personally handled a crisis. However, we recently ran into a situation where we had a signed commitment for a show and the attraction…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:02PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
If you are wringing your hands over the difficulty you are having attracting students to your performances and events, you are not alone– university football programs are having diffic…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
This story can’t be allowed to pass uncommented upon. Or at least, I feel the need to comment more extensively than did Thomas Cott when he tweeted this link. In a case of damned if yo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Last week we were having a conversation to create a repair and replacement plan based on life cycle expectations for our performing arts facility. Of course, there are already a number of is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
I was really surprised to find my name tucked at the bottom of Barry Hessenius’ 2014’s Top 50 Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts (USA) In fact, since I re…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
You may have seen this recent piece in The New Yorker on creativity. My state arts council linked to it and now I see multiple others have as well. Author Joshua Rothman asks, “How did…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to a post on TRG blog about Mission versus business models. I will cut right to the chase and say that I honed right in on their discussion of making…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Springboard for the Arts recently profiled Artists U, an artist lead, artist centered professional development and planning project. The project started in Philadelphia and has spread to Bal…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Two weeks ago my neighbors were gathered around their pool talking excitedly about doing the ice bucket challenge. One of the kids asked five or six times what ALS was throughout the convers…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:57PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2014
I got recruited at the last minute to teach a public speaking class this semester. After a week, I have already started to make my problem their problem. I asked the students, in a time when…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Back in January, I wrote about some of the intriguing aspects of Netflix’s human resource policies. One of these policies was that they provide generous severance packages to people th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Createquity may be in reruns right now while they reorganize, but they have great timing. Today they featured a post from 2011 which was something of a complement to the post about pricing a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Seth Godin posted some thoughts about pricing that are worthy of consideration. The fact this post is about three times as long as his usual posts indicates the importance he places on the t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
As immersive arts experiences become increasingly prevalent, there have been some interesting introspective reflections of the experiences recently in The Guardian and Irish Times. Both piec…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Non-Profit Law blogger Gene Tagaki recently tweeted a link to an article he wrote for the American Bar Association about 5 years ago urging lawyers to consider alternatives to forming non-pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
It often seems one of the hardest things to do in the performing arts is to correctly anticipate audience interest in a show. Related to that is gauging the best way to market and position a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
If you didn’t catch it, in June Non-Profit Quarterly had a good 101 guide on when it is appropriate for non-profits to take out loans.  Most times you hear about non-profits and …
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