2,235 stories by "Joe Patti"
If you want to see a good example of a show that is answering people's need to see themselves and their stories on stage, check out Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The show is on Netflix, but…
Back in October Sara Leonard made a blog post for Americans for the Arts about marketing in the context of the "false-consensus effect," the idea that your personal opinions, beliefs and int…
I wanted to give a little love and attention to the efforts of artists in Hawaii. As many readers know, I ran a theater in Hawaii for about nine years, presenting and producing a number of w…
Hey all. Dan Pink linked to a round up of education research that came out in 2019. There were studies on how good teachers were better than awards when it came to raising attendance rates; …
I neglected to note who had posted it on Twitter, but an article in The Economist about what the arts can teach business came across my feed today. One of the first examples was an exercise …
Last week Vox had a backstage video on the Metropolitan Opera production of Philip Glass' Akhnaten. What I loved about it and wanted to call attention to was the way in which they made eleme…
As the year comes to a close and you start attending parties hosted by different non-profit organizations, it may appear that the same people seem to be involved with every non-profit organi…
This week the National Endowment for the Arts posted the final recordings of works created for the NEA Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. Last Spring, six works by seven high school stud…
As the world becomes more connected, rules and regulations governing conflicts of interest associated with geographic boundaries start to lose their relevance. Broader definitions and applic…
I recently saw an article on Arts Professional UK reporting that the governments of England and Wales would be opting out of the new creative thinking assessment section of the Programme for…
Historically, theater fires have been among some of the worst in terms of loss of life and property damage. Improvements in firefighting equipment and building design and construction have f…
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com for the link to a Guardian piece about a kabuki version of Star Wars. The adaptation (or at least the video available online) covered moments from the most recent …
I was really excited to see the article title on Non-Profit Quarterly, "NYC's Small Theaters Have Limited Budgets but Great Cultural Influence" I thought it was great that someone was focusi…
Aubrey Bergauer tweeted about a position at her new day job with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music last week. That fact wasn't notable in and of itself. What surprised me as someone th…
As Thanksgiving approaches, your anxiety level may be rising at the prospect of spending uncomfortable meals with relatives, engaging in an even shorter official Christmas shopping season th…
Via a social post ArtsMidwest made, there is a museum management game coming out next year called Mondo Museum. Thinking back to all the posts Nina Simon had made on Museum 2.0 over the year…
Today CityLab had a post titled "How Go-Go Music Became Kryptonite for Gentrification in D.C." This was actually a follow up to an article that had come out in the Spring that I bookmarked w…
A few months back, Andrew Taylor at the Arts Management program over at American University linked to an interview with Ed Schein, professor emeritus of MIT's Sloan School of Management. …
Hey all! If you live in a small or medium sized town and have always thought the asphalt and concrete slabs of your streets wouldn't be so bad if they just had a coat of paint, Bloomberg Phi…
When I saw a story on Non-Profit Quarterly about four Kalamazoo, MI non-profits entering a shared-services partnership, I immediately assumed it was confined to back office functions as I ha…
No, no, no, this isn't a story about someone with little talent and unoriginal ideas, quite the contrary. Recently my Arts Hacker colleague, Ceci Dadisman, had linked to an article about an …
If you want to read a great story about taking the initiative to provide great customer service, check out the story about Tonya Heath, head usher at the Forrest Theatre where Hamilton is be…
Today was the big day for our community's On The Table discussion. If you aren't familiar with the nationwide program, it is a day different groups in a community host discussions on any top…
There was an opinion piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website today by Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, discussing how the evaluative measures often employed by funde…
From the "I wish we could figure out the formula and bottle this" file, we hosted a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday. The staff at the theater had been advocating for a scr…
