2,241 stories by "Joe Patti"
A couple months back, Arts Professional had an article by Jonathan Vaughan, Principal of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, asking if "artistic citizenship" could be taught. Defining art…
Interesting article on Slate today written by Patrick Vala-Haynes, who teaches stage combat to middle and high school age students. If you aren't familiar with the practice, stage combat tra…
Last month CNBC had a profile of an assistant company manager working on the Broadway show "& Juliet."Â Â If you don't know what a company manager on a theatrical production does, i…
I was listening to an episode of the Code Switch podcast this weekend while I was out walking. The topic was about how merengue was the basis for a culture war in Puerto Rico. What, at f…
In a case of "not something I had imagined", the Birmingham Royal Ballet recently decided to create a ballet set to the music of Black Sabbath, who got their start in the city. Lead guitaris…
This Facebook post about the Failure Award Scholarship immediately caught my eye this morning. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is looking for creative Colorado seniors to apply to thei…
I saw this tweet the beginning of the month and was engaged by the idea of video game inspired tourism. The video game Fallout76 is set in a post apocalyptic rendering of WV, much of it imma…
The last few months I have been seeing a number of stories about audiences in UK theaters being abusive toward staff and other patrons. A week or so ago, The Stage reported that Edinburgh Pl…
You may have recently seen that MTV and the Hirshhorn Museum are teaming up to create a TV series to find the next great visual artist. As soon as I saw this, I recalled that there had been …
You may have seen that the AMC movie chain decided to implement tiered pricing for their theaters with higher prices for preferred seating and lower pricing for less desirable front row seat…
I was not keeping close tabs on the topics President Biden was expected to cover in the State of the Union so it was a coincidence that yesterday's post was about exorbitant add on fees on t…
With people feeling more comfortable going to public events again, the travails consumers suffer when trying to purchase tickets are coming front and center. Last week TicketNews reported th…
Many readers know that I recently moved from Macon, GA to take up a job in Colorado. Even before I moved, I was astounded by the number of articles that were being written about Macon, encou…
Big news out of Australia where the first national arts policy since 2013 was announced. In addition to commitments of funding to specific entities and organizations, arguably the most s…
Last week when I was writing about the ticketing trends being forecast for the coming year, I accidentally omitted an additional point from the article I found pretty interesting. Appare…
I have been following Diep Tran on social media for years so I got a minor thrill when she announced she was named editor-in-chief of Playbill last October. Last week she posted an expla…
A little divergence from my usual posting topics. As many readers know, I moved to Loveland, CO in late Fall to take a position. As you might imagine, Valentine's Day is something of a big d…
Last week I mentioned some of my experiences at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference. The conference recently sent out a list of 10 takeaways for their own.…
Last week there was a post on the INTIX website listing 19 trends for 2023. The list contains prognostications from people handling tickets for both arts and sports events so your mileag…
h/t to Howard Sherman who posted a link to a story about how theater can teach empathy to kids. The article talks about how common theater games like mirroring can cultivate active listening…
For the APAP conference this past weekend, one of the primary plenaries was "A Brutally Honest Conversation about Nonprofit, For-Profits, Government, Philanthropy, and the Arts." (panel disc…
I was attending the Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference recently and sat in on a Life After SVOG session. There were a number of things discussed that either fell into th…
In the past I have written critically about the use of creative practice as a prescriptive tool to boost the development and achievement level of children (i.e. attaching headphones to your …
For the third year in a row, the Knight Foundation has conducted a survey of the top 55 charitable foundations with the intent of measuring the diversity of those managing the assets. Of the…
I know a lot of people in the performing arts literally or figuratively roll their eyes at the inevitable question, "How do you remember all those lines."Â Â However, Stephen Colbert re…
