By Shibani Mahtani Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal Dean Gladden breathed a sigh of relief two years ago when a $46.5 million renovation of the Alley Theatre, the first major improvement in the Tony Award-winning theater’s five-decade history, was finally completed. Standing in

Merton Barr, a long-time IAVM member who served as the assistant general manager of the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa (now part of the Iowa Events Center), passed away peacefully on Monday, September 11, 2017, at UnityPoint Methodist Hospital. Merton was born Februa

Atlanta’s legendary Fox Theatre has hired historic preservation and community development expert Leigh Burns to manage the Fox Theatre Institute’s (FTI) program. FTI is a programming, consulting, and grant funding division of Fox Theatre, Inc. that has committed more than $1 million i

While spending part of his career as director of business development for Nationwide Medical/Surgical, Peter Secord had an up-close look at the world of group purchasing, a process that can be described as buying facility essentials in bulk at discounted prices. “I basically rec

Julie Bunker has joined Portland’5 Centers for the Arts as the new director of operations. Bunker has 20 years of experience in increasingly responsible roles within operational management at various companies. In her most recent position, Bunker was the director of design and constru