2,138 stories from Butts In The Seats
It is likely you haven't been able to avoid the seemingly incessant discussion about the negotiations to raise the debt limit. If you haven't been able to muster the zen-like state of lettin…
Earlier this week the LA Times had a rather lengthy piece on the closing number of the musical Six, a show about the six wives of Henry VIII. In the final number which has come to be kno…
Howard Sherman posted a link to a New Yorker article about some intrepid film actors who stumbled upon an overlooked section of the The Screen Actors Guild " American Federation of Televisio…
Over the weekend I caught a couple news articles out of the UK about a production which is carving out one performance in their run for black audiences only. The show, Tambo & Bones, whi…
We were participating in a scavenger hunt for a local 3rd grade class today. The kids were given clues associated with museums, galleries and public art around the downtown area. In addition…
TRG Arts recently released some data showing that not all segments of performing arts have recovered from pandemic shutdowns at the same rate. Comparing four factors from 2019 to 2022:Â T…
A link to a great story came across my feed today about a Hawaii Symphony Orchestra's production that was really focused on resonating with the interests of the community they serve. Las…
I was scrolling through Reddit while waiting for a show to end Friday night and happened upon a post that reflects great engagement by the St. Louis Blues hockey team. A guy discovering …
Vu Le made a thought provoking post with suggestions to make fundraising events more community-centric. The subtext of his thoughts is essentially to avoid valorizing donors and literally ma…
It appears the folks that spearheaded the Save Our Stages effort during Covid which became the Shuttled Venue Operators Grant program are turning their energies toward tackling all the probl…
There is a fairly extensive article on the Time magazine site about using creative practice to address burnout. The piece by Jamie Ducharme was titled "I Tried to Cure My Work Burnout. H…
I had a post appear on ArtsHacker today about hiring executive leadership in the context of the social changes which have occurred since the start of the Covid pandemic. My post primarily fo…
Colleen Dilenschneider made a post comparing what factors created dissatisfaction for attendees of cultural events in 2019 vs. 2022. She posted charts for both exhibit and performance based …
Nina Simon may have left museum administration and being an agent of change behind to write books, but she still manages to live and think right on the cusp of things. Today, I receive an ar…
Artsjournal linked to a piece in a University of Florida journal about a program the university is piloting in the hopes of eventually rolling out a national program of prescribing arts to s…
Another entry in the "What is art" debate" A bakery owner in NH allowed students to paint a mural on his building. Because the mural depicted a sun rising over mountains made of donuts and m…
Earlier this month, the Albany Times-Union reported that there won't be much theatre occurring at the storied Willamstown Theatre Festival. The reason is based on the staff walkouts and …
Bloomberg recently had a piece about how the Girls Scouts of Colorado recently opened a space in Denver known as DreamLab, envisioned to be a third space for girls. As spaces for young peopl…
By now most people have probably heard about the brawl between audience members at a Manchester, England performance of The Bodyguard because people were singing along to "I Will Always Love…
Thanks to Barry Hessenius for providing my post topic today. He sent a link to an Inc magazine piece titled "Want to Raise Kind, Generous Kids? Take Them to an Art Museum." Readers will know…
When I saw a notice about MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee's death at 102 yesterday, it was tucked in the corner of a website so I didn't think there would be a lot of notice. But this morning …
A Guardian article on classical music in Iceland caught my eye last week. The story basically suggested that because the country got a late start with classical music, (first major tour by H…
You may have seen a rise in backlash against Ticketmaster fees coming from performing artists. Neil Young recently posted that exploitative ticketing fees were taking the fun out of touring.…
The blog for Master of Management in International Arts Management had a case study post by Donna S. Finley and Vijay Sathe examining how the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and Alberta…
This morning I saw Artsjournal had linked to a story about the seizure of a statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which had apparently been stolen from Turkey. More and more frequently th…
