Jane Chu—president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri—was confirmed at the 11th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) yesterday the the U.S. Senate. “I’m honored to receive the Senate’s vote of confirmation, and I look

Joe Floreano, CFE, has given a lot time and energy to the venue management industry, and it’s not going unnoticed. He was awarded the 2014 Legacy Award last month from the IAVM Foundation, and this month he’s receiving another honor. The Rochester Broadway Theatre League (

Two of our member venues have received Google Glass to experiment with in order to learn about the pros and cons of the technology when using it in a facility. We’ll be following their progress on the blog here and in FM magazine. This first blog post is written by Ruth Fajardo

I recently attended a lecture at a performing arts center. The seats were great. The sound was great. The presentation was great. Everything was great, except for the eager usher who emphatically told patrons not to take photos with their mobile phones. A phone would go up, and the us

If you want to feel happier, then you might want to see at least two theatre plays per year. That’s just one of the findings in a new study out of Britain titled “Quantifying and Valuing the Wellbeing Impacts of Culture and Sport.” According the study, people who att