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Arts Spotlight: Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
March 10, 2015Small theaters usually don’t make the business section of local newspapers, but the 165-seat, 105-year-old Southern Theater in Minneapolis was featured in the StarTribune […]
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Marketing Spotlight: Folger Theatre, Washington, D.C.
March 3, 2015Earlier this year we read an article about the controversy surrounding the Metropolitan Opera’s rush ticket policy. We wondered how other venues handled rush […]
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Q&A Spotlight: Active Acoustic Systems
February 17, 2015One way technology is impacting performing arts facilities is with active acoustic systems, which use sophisticated computers, microphones and speakers to enhance a venue’s […]
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An Instrument’s True Value
February 3, 2015What makes certain musical instruments valuable? How is that value properly calculated? And is there any correlation between a historic musical instrument’s value and […]
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Time to Inspect Your Rigging?
January 27, 2015Five Facts to Convince Your Board Your stage rigging may be decades old or installed in the last few years, counterweight or motorized, and […]
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Q&A Spotlight: Sensory Friendly Performing Arts
January 13, 2015Performing arts geared for audience members with social and cognitive disabilities — including those on the autism spectrum — are making news recently. On […]
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Think Outside the Rink
January 6, 2015Maybe it’s the bitter sub-zero weather in the northern U.S. or the 2015 NHL Winter Classic played outside last week, but we’re inspired to […]
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Acoustics 101: Achieving Ensemble
December 9, 2014From an occasional series… For most people, the word “ensemble” only means a group of musicians performing together. However, conductors and music directors use […]
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Tracking the Arts: 2014 National Index Published
December 2, 2014Earlier this fall, we profiled the development of the Local Arts Index by Americans for the Arts, by interviewing one of its creators, Roland […]