“The result was less a purely musical work than a sprawling, ceremonial communion. As an exercise in sincere civic engagement and community building, the project was unimpeachable.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Opera Colorado Comes Back From Austerity With A New Plan For Audiences
“Anything we’re doing outside the opera house is to engage a different audience. It’s not about bringing this audience we have out into the community.”
Denver Wants To Reimagine What Its Performing Arts Center Can Be
“The city believes it has to adapt the site, since audiences for the traditional arts have tapered off. At the same time, people want more informal and engaging cultural experiences.”
The Arts In Britain: Survey Says They’re Still Male, Still White, Still Middle-Class
“The survey reinforced the recent findings of the Warwick Commission, which found that arts and culture was being ‘systematically removed’ from the state education system, and that arts audiences were predominantly white and middle class. Both factors were contributing to the creative sector becoming a closed shop, particularly to those from black, asian and ethnic minorities (BAME) and less affluent backgrounds.”
UK Performing Arts Industry Speaks Out Against Ticket Reselling
“The consequence in many cases is that fans will attend fewer shows, meaning that the profits made by such immoral practice is also money lost from the industry.”
Claim: Ticket Resellers Are A Scourge That Hurts Audiences
“I don’t think parasitic is too strong a word for the secondary ticketing industry. Our view is that this is an industry that’s been allowed to grow on the back of the creative arts without reinvesting anything into it.”
Why TV Ratings Still Matter, Even Though They’re Becoming Less Accurate And More Meaningless
Nielsen’s figures include few of the people who watch a show in the days after it airs, and none at all who watch on a phone, a tablet, or Netflix. “If almost nothing is a hit anymore, why shouldn’t a hit be whatever we say it is? But that ‘we’ is exactly the problem.”
America’s Cult Of The ‘Amateur’
The phrase amateur hour “now registers as an insult. But it has an older meaning, one that betrays America’s sincere enthusiasm for the utterly unprofessional. … The idea of effortless authenticity is so attractive that members of the American establishment have vied for more than a century to buy, cheat or counterfeit their way to amateur status.”
What’s The Role Of Entertainment In The Wake Of The Attacks In Paris?
“Once again, those of us immersed in entertainment–as producers, as distributors, as chroniclers, or even just as devotees–are left to ask where it fits in. Cultures have been grappling for centuries with how much space to allow levity in the place of a tragedy. But the relevance, and even the defensibility, of entertainment has lately been thrust forward as never before.”
Minnesota’s Guthrie Theatre Wants To Figure Out What’s Minnesota
“The big question for us is how to serve the state in a way that someone from Duluth can find the same value in our work as someone who lives in one of those condos right next to us.”