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February 14, 2016 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want? Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want.  One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience. But perhaps it's frustrating that people don't see more people like themselves on stages. "One of my frustrations with what happens on the stage a lot of the time when working class … [Read more...]

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I'm the founder and editor of ArtsJournal, which I launched in 1999. ArtsJournal has never been a news source — it's a curated conversation: 26 years of gathering the most significant writing about … [Read More...]

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Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... [Read more]

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