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

The first annual American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC)/United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Venue Renovation Challenge award was presented in Fort Worth, Texas, at the 54th annual USITT Conference and Expo in March. Andy Baker, Evan Bunner, Shane Cinal, and

Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London recently announced a world tour of Hamlet. The company plans to perform the perennial play in every country. One of those countries happens to be North Korea, long know for its questionable human rights record. “No tragic play could co

Here’s something that you might be interested in. One of our Allied members, Joshua Dachs, is quoted in a Huffington Post article about reinventing arts centers. The article by John Rampton uses The Old Globe theater in San Diego as one example of how organizations are updating