By BOA and TRG Arts Social justice advocacy group Black Opera Alliance (BOA) and international arts management consultants TRG Arts have released the first Insight Report tracking progress U.S. opera companies are making toward the eight areas of needed transformation defined in BOA’s

By Lucy Albers ASM Global, the premier venue management and services company, announced the addition of Drew Gershenson to their team in Oklahoma City as Director of Programming for Chesapeake Energy Arena. In this position, Gershenson will oversee and coordinate all aspects in the fa

By R.V. Baugus In basketball, the term “going coast to coast” refers to taking the ball from one end of the court to the other and usually culminating in a made basket. Sadaf Usmani has moved the term into the public assembly venue world with her career relocation from Met

By Dennis Dennehy First Avenue, one of the country’s leading independent concert promoters and venue owners, and AXS, a leader in mobile ticketing, marketing and data solutions, have entered an exclusive ticketing partnership that includes the six venues owned or operated by the Minne

By R.V. Baugus IAVM member Michael Owens has been named vice president of booking of Oak View Group-managed Moody Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Owens was most recently assistant general manager of Chesapeake Energy Arena, an NBA venue in Oklahoma City, Okl