Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Ken Davenport recently talked about how he enjoyed Broadway shows much more when he was younger. Part of the reason he has a harder time now is because he analyzes the show with the eye of a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
Last summer there were a number of stories about how the Seoul city government installed a giant ear sculpture into which citizens could make comments. The ear was served something of a dual…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Often we use some really general terms when referencing the people who support our organizations which tends to make us think of them as monolithic entity. Having written this blog for 10 ye…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
I hadn’t really intended for this to be a “Government and the Arts” themed week on my blog when I wrote about the search for a director of the NEA yesterday, but it seems t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:41PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Near the end of 2013 I started seeing quite a few blog posts and tweets criticizing the Obama administration for not appointing someone to replace Rocco Landesman as chair of the National En…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
One of the more intriguing ideas I have come across in my 10 years of blogging is the Artist Pension Trust which has artists deposit their work into across the course of 20 years with the pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Last week, Americans for the Arts held a blog salon on Rural Arts.  There were a lot of familiar names and faces with posts by Wormfarm Institute and Springboard for the Arts’ ru…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:43PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
So Drew McManus beat me to it, Butts in the Seats turned 10 on Sunday. It was February 23, 2004 when I made my first post. Now here I am nearly 1500 posts later, still going pretty strong. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
I ended up with an interesting juxtaposition of articles today. After clicking on interesting looking links in my Twitter feed, I had an article asking whether children should be allowed in …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Today I saw a post on The Creativity Post that had me thinking back to my piece yesterday on Seth Godin’s vision of what constituted an elite.  In The Gorgeous Reality of Not Bei…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:35PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
Seth Godin is talking about us. Well, actually I think that is a little narcissistic to think he is merely talking about people in the creative fields. I am pretty sure his comment encompass…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Yesterday I was at our local hospital attending some presentations on different aspects of the hospital’s operations. One of the people spoke about the processes the hospital follows t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
I never really thought of my venue and the shows it presents as a target for ticket resellers and secondary market brokers, but a recent incident provides a cautionary tale. I had a woman ma…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:06PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
A reader from Oklahoma recently wrote me thanking me for providing information arts organizations in rural settings can use. With that in mind, I wanted to highlight a “if Minnesota ca…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Last month, the Cultural Data Project released a study they commissioned to investigate the use of data by arts organizations and what impediments to effectiveness exist. If you aren’t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
As promised, I am posting the video of the “Five Minutes To Shine” speech my former colleague and assistant theatre manager, Lehua Simon gave at the Association of Performing Art…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:40PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
I was a little surprised by the news last week that the entire board of Minnesota Dance Theatre resigned. I thought at first that perhaps there had been a rift in the board and many of them …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Apparently Netflix Powerpoint presentation on human resources has been getting a lot of views this last month. I remember being able to read the accompanying article on Harvard Business Revi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Yesterday, commenter Lee Saylor asked a question about foul weather and refunds on a post I did a couple weeks ago regarding that subject. He noted that like many performing arts organizatio…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Earlier this month, I read an interview with WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg about his company, Automattic’s, hiring process. The title of the interview, Hire by Audition, Not Resumes…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
It is something of a trope that when you are a teenager without a lot of work experience looking to get a better job, you get creative about how you describe your past experience, claiming t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
One of the more interesting discussion sessions at the Arts Presenters conference I attended was related to a study/discussion conducted by the Brooklyn Commune Project that was released las…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
I just got back in the office today after attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference in NYC and I wanted to share some quick impressions and highlights from the exper…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
While I am at the Arts Presenters conference this week, there is sure to be many discussions about how to attract and retain audiences for arts programming. Back in 2007 I took umbrage with …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
I am off at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in NYC today. So as I am wont to do, I am reaching back to my archives for my post today. I thought it was appropriate to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
This last week I have gotten some real lessons in the importance of disaster planning. During the quiet of the holidays I started a conversation with some colleagues about how we would handl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2014
I was taken off guard by the news today that the Trey McIntyre Project is disbanding. I always half wondered if the company wasn’t meant to be permanent based on the fact they kept lab…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
A week from today, I will be presenting a panel at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference on “Presenting Works By Indigenous Artists.” Our session is currently …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
As the year ended, it was announced that Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, was closing this January. Given the interminable previews, technical problems and public discussion of Julie TaymorR…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:07PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2013
In about two weeks I will be attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in NYC. I will be hosting a discussion panel, but my primary objective is to learn about diffe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Like I assume most of you, I thought I pretty much knew everything there was to know about A Christmas Carol. I had seen dozens of adaptations, (not including the Klingon version) and revisi…
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