Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Last month Drew McManus had box office manager Tiffin Feltner make a guest post on his Adaptistration blog on the topic of comp tickets. It has taken me about three weeks to stop grindin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
American Theatre recently had a great piece about an interesting approach Princeton University is using as an alternative to auditions called “Try On Theatre Days.” They describe the pro…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Many of you may have seen the news about the accusations of “wokeness” being leveled at the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel for adding plant based breakfast sausage to the menu. To be cl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PMThursday, August 4, 2022
Last month the San Francisco Chronicle ran an opinion piece by Nataki Garrett, the Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, titled Theater can help drive economic recovery in S.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:37AMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Last month, Washington Post Classical Music Critic Michael Andor Brodeur wrote a piece about why people like himself are unhappy with classical music organizations ditching printed programs.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMRecently I have been seeing stories about violin scammers. People performing in shopping centers and other public places with signs asking for money. What is interesting about these stories …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Many people probably heard about a Minnesota venue cancelling Dave Chappelle’s show hours before it was suppose to occur. Something similar happened a few weeks ago at a venue on the oth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PMAs promised, I am following up on Monday’s post about about the first European Union (EU) wide survey of performing arts. I wanted to note some of the recommendations made in the study. On…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Last week German arts administrator Rainer Glaap made a Facebook post linking to the first ever study of theatres across the European Union (EU). Additionally, some of the survey participa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Earlier this month Colleen Dilenschneider wrote a post providing data that showed Instagram was the social media platform with the highest levels of audience engagement and conversions (deci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMAmerican Theatre had some encouraging news about a trend to improve summer theatre internship programs. The need for this was seen last year as interns and other staff were walking off the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how donor advised funds (DAF) had surpassed charities like the United Way as recipients of charitable giving. I noted this is a problem because unlike…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37AMThursday, July 14, 2022
We often hear about how scientific geniuses had an arts related hobby that contributed to their process, (Eisenstein and his violin are mentioned a lot), but we rarely get any detailed insig…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
If you hadn’t caught the news in the last week, there is a major crisis at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago which saw the mass resignation of their current cohort of resident artists. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMMonday, July 11, 2022
Via Artsjournal.com was a Chalkbeat story about DanceLogic, a program in Philadelphia “designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate girls of color in STEM.” The premise: Both coding an…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:37PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
” Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably won’t be around for th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
A link to a video presentation about a study the Michigan Arts and Culture Council commissioned of SMU DataArts popped up in my feed last week. I am not sure what inspired me to listen all t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMThursday, June 30, 2022
The Artsjournal daily newsletter today linked to a Smithsonian Institution article using the title “Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines.” Fr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:07AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Earlier this month Vu Le of the Non Profit AF blog linked to a piece reporting that Donor Advised Funds (DAF) had surpassed charities as recipients of charitable revenue. The problem with …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMThis post might go a bit on the cerebral side, but bear with me it should go along pretty quickly. Thanks to Marginal Revolution blog I learned that top MBA programs have a policy of grade n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Back in March I made a post about an artist’s project in Pittsburgh that called attention to the disparity in appraisals between White homeowners and Black homeowners. In a story of art …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
I have read a fair number of articles about transitioning problematic board members off a board, but I have to credit Vu Le for laying out a relatively detailed process for accomplishing the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMI had planned to write about something different today but this post by Ruth Hartt on LinkedIn grabbed my attention. Cain Lewis goes on to talk about how he doesn’t care about Airbnb: So t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:37AMFriday, June 17, 2022
Whenever I have visited a museum that forces you to go through the gift shop before you can exit, I have viewed the design as a cynical cash grab. As I think about it, while I have frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Via the Marginal Revolution blog I came across a piece analyzing the economics of stadium naming. The basic conclusion was that if you see a corporation buying naming rights for a stadiu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMI know for a fact that for at least 30 years now, market textbooks and classes have made the distinction between marketing and advertising/promotion the first definition provided. That has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMThursday, June 9, 2022
I caught a story on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday that discussed the way airlines use premium seating. One of the people interviewed mentioned that airlines craftily use the separation of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
There was an article on The Conversation website back in March by Elisabeth Gruner discussing how she stopped giving grades on student papers in favor of comments and wished she had done so …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMAbout three months ago I mentioned that we were having a concert filmed for public television in our venue. We recently got word that it will make its broadcast debut on Georgia Public Broad…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:33AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Seth Godin recently made a post with a suggestion that runs counter to concept that arts organizations need to broaden their audience. He has made posts throughout the years about attracti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSo hat tip to Roger Tomlinson who made a social media post calling attention to “A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism“ It appears it…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PM 
