Monday, April 29, 2013
Yo Adrian! Rocky’s getting a shot at Broadway.
He may be known as as brawler with hands of stone, but Rocky Balboa is poised to dance and sing on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:33PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Shia LaBeouf may have exited stage left abruptly from what was supposed to be his Broadway debut - but the mercurial actor can't seem to leave the drama behind.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:26PMFriday, August 31, 2012
As the 2012 Broadway season kicks off, Playbill lists 30 new shows that will vie for audience attention — and dollars — this year. All are no doubt aiming to match the success of a music…
SOURCE: Harvard Business Review at 09:51PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Mark O’Donnell, the Tony Award-winning writer behind popular Broadway hits such as “Hairspray” and “Cry-Baby,” has died. He was 58.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:34AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
A VIDEO technician for the Broadway hit “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is missing after he sent suicidal notes to friends, police sources said. Jason Lindahl, 27, was last seen at his …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:24PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
It's been a fairy tale come true for fans of “Into the Woods.”
“Chicago” director Rob Marshall is bringing the popular 1987 Broadway musical created by Stephen Sondheim and …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:14PMThursday, July 21, 2011
It seems like dynamic pricing may start to creep into the non-profit performing arts sector as a common practice. Stories about it are starting to crop up more and more frequently. When the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:20AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Our friends at the Non Profit Law Blog linked to a presentation intended to be a guide about compensated time for non-profits. The reason the presenter, Veneable LLP, this is so important is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:15AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
The Non Profit Quarterly had a piece by Simone Joyaux which I suspect reflects what will be the necessary practice in fund raising for the future. She asks fund raisers to stop asking their …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:44AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Well this one falls under the heading of, “I did not know that.” The Non Profit Quarterly reports that the Office of Government Ethics has proposed changing a rule that prohibite…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:23AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
A commentary by Dr. Gary Christenson on the Minnesota Medicine website offers the most complete listing of the benefits of arts in medicine I have yet seen. Whether the piece inspires you to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:35AMTuesday, July 12, 2011
In something of a complement to my post on Wednesday regarding the factors influencing decisions about providing arts classes in higher education, Friday I attended a retreat on budgeting wi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:45AMThursday, July 7, 2011
I am starting to wonder if the same forces that are seeing the arts disappear from K-12 schools are starting to encroach upon university level education to the same effect. There have been r…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:36AMWednesday, July 6, 2011
I was reading that Iceland is in the process of updating it constitution and is soliciting feedback from its citizens. The constitutional council is posting drafts of each section online and…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:10AMThursday, June 30, 2011
A nod to our friends at the Non-Profit Law blog for noting that CompassPoint Non Profit Services and the Myer Foundation who teamed up three years ago to bring us the report I blogged on, Re…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:07AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
I often have arts professionals in their late 30s-early 40s ask me for comp tickets or ask me to request comps on their behalf at another performance space. Their whole decision to attend is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:21AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Tip of the hat to Don Hall (aka Angry White Guy in Chicago) for linking to the Everything Is A Remix web series, some thing of a labor of love by NY film maker Kirby Ferguson. Parts One and …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42AMThursday, June 23, 2011
In May Tech Soup hosted a series of Monday Twitter chats on the topic of Social Media. They provide a summary of the discussions on their forums. The discussions covered the use of Twitter, …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:56AMWednesday, June 22, 2011
The debate about intellectual property rights rattled around my head while I was visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art and later the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was somewhat surprised to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:43AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
So I am back from my vacation! From the traffic statistics, it looks like a fair number of people enjoyed reading some of the back catalog of posts to which I provided links. My travels this…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:27AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
I will be back from vacation soon, I promise you! In the meantime, have a gander back in time once more. In 2005, the Wallace Foundation commissioned a study which came out, “Gifts of …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:10PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
I think I have re-linked to this story a number of times over the course of my blog, but Neill Archer Roan’s recounting of how the Oregon Bach Festival engaged their community in a con…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:36PMThursday, June 2, 2011
Maryland Theatre Guide's Joel Markowitz interviews winners of this year's Drama Desk Awards in the Press Room. A look back as Ovation is about to broadcast 90 minutes of highlights on Sat Ju…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:22PM 
