2,235 stories by "Joe Patti"
I saw this tweet the beginning of the month and was engaged by the idea of video game inspired tourism. The video game Fallout76 is set in a post apocalyptic rendering of WV, much of it imma…
The last few months I have been seeing a number of stories about audiences in UK theaters being abusive toward staff and other patrons. A week or so ago, The Stage reported that Edinburgh Pl…
You may have recently seen that MTV and the Hirshhorn Museum are teaming up to create a TV series to find the next great visual artist. As soon as I saw this, I recalled that there had been …
You may have seen that the AMC movie chain decided to implement tiered pricing for their theaters with higher prices for preferred seating and lower pricing for less desirable front row seat…
I was not keeping close tabs on the topics President Biden was expected to cover in the State of the Union so it was a coincidence that yesterday's post was about exorbitant add on fees on t…
With people feeling more comfortable going to public events again, the travails consumers suffer when trying to purchase tickets are coming front and center. Last week TicketNews reported th…
Many readers know that I recently moved from Macon, GA to take up a job in Colorado. Even before I moved, I was astounded by the number of articles that were being written about Macon, encou…
Big news out of Australia where the first national arts policy since 2013 was announced. In addition to commitments of funding to specific entities and organizations, arguably the most s…
Last week when I was writing about the ticketing trends being forecast for the coming year, I accidentally omitted an additional point from the article I found pretty interesting. Appare…
I have been following Diep Tran on social media for years so I got a minor thrill when she announced she was named editor-in-chief of Playbill last October. Last week she posted an expla…
A little divergence from my usual posting topics. As many readers know, I moved to Loveland, CO in late Fall to take a position. As you might imagine, Valentine's Day is something of a big d…
Last week I mentioned some of my experiences at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference. The conference recently sent out a list of 10 takeaways for their own.…
Last week there was a post on the INTIX website listing 19 trends for 2023. The list contains prognostications from people handling tickets for both arts and sports events so your mileag…
h/t to Howard Sherman who posted a link to a story about how theater can teach empathy to kids. The article talks about how common theater games like mirroring can cultivate active listening…
For the APAP conference this past weekend, one of the primary plenaries was "A Brutally Honest Conversation about Nonprofit, For-Profits, Government, Philanthropy, and the Arts." (panel disc…
I was attending the Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference recently and sat in on a Life After SVOG session. There were a number of things discussed that either fell into th…
In the past I have written critically about the use of creative practice as a prescriptive tool to boost the development and achievement level of children (i.e. attaching headphones to your …
For the third year in a row, the Knight Foundation has conducted a survey of the top 55 charitable foundations with the intent of measuring the diversity of those managing the assets. Of the…
I know a lot of people in the performing arts literally or figuratively roll their eyes at the inevitable question, "How do you remember all those lines."Â Â However, Stephen Colbert re…
For about a year now, I have seen Dan Pink post on social media about his survey of people's regrets and how it can be healthy to embrace them. Finally, I decided to read about what he had t…
Right at the end of the year, New York City based columnist for The Guardian, Moira Donegan, wrote a loving piece about how she is thankful for US public libraries. One of the first things s…
If you aren't familiar with Springboard for the Arts, it is an organization based in St. Paul, MN, (with a rural office in Fergus Falls, MN), run by artists, for artists. But that is just th…
Just before Christmas there was an article about Actors' Equity union pushing their members to contact Congressional representatives about passing Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA).Â…
ProPublica recently reported that the IRS has yet to release nearly a half million non-profit tax records. You may be wondering why that is something you should be concerned about. In fact, …
Diane Ragsdale recently made a post about the design and intent of the Masters of Arts in Creative Leadership program she is leading at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). In answe…
