“Premium tickets for Broadway shows can cost north of $200. Adjusting for inflation, the $25 ticket in 1984 should cost only about $58 today. Something is not sufficiently aligned. The questions I often ponder are: How do high ticket prices limit accessibility? How much profit is profitable?” Marshall Jones III, producing artistic director of the Tony-winning African-American troupe Crossroads Theatre Company, discusses the ways he and some of his colleagues have addressed this issue.
Category: AUDIENCE
Is This The World’s Coolest New Library?
Inside, there’s the collection of books, a center for city government services,
a computer center, a cafe, lecture halls, playgrounds, and an interactive floor; outside, there’s an even bigger playground and a giant tubular bell that rings every time a baby is born in town. Down below is a parking lot run by robots.
Guard At Musée d’Orsay Tells Noisy Students To ‘Shut Their Mouths’, And All Paris Argues About It
The students in question come from a “education priority zone,” and their teacher complained (on Facebook, of course) that middle-class white students could make noise without getting yelled at.
What’s Up With This Othello In A Plywood Box?
They did what? “The two have turned the space into a plywood box, modeled in part on the kind of temporary military installations that U.S. troops have mounted in deserts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last dozen years or so, and put the audience on three sides of the action.”
Crowdfunding Has Become Increasingly Important For The Arts
“In the US, Kickstarter famously helped raise more funds for the arts than the National Endowment for the Arts. In the UK crowdfunding for the arts has also grown rapidly, with models such as rewards-based crowdfunding – the model most popular with artists and creatives – facilitating £42m worth of donations in 2015, a growth of more than 60% from £26m in 2014.”
How Marketers And Designers Make Things Cool
There’s an optimal level of newness – not too familiar, not too surprising – that gets people receptive to a product, or a name, or an idea. Raymond Loewy, arguably the most influential designer of the 20th century, had an acronym for it: MAYA.
How ‘Mozart In The Jungle’ Brought Messiaen – Messiaen! – To Rikers Island
A plot point in the Amazon comedy series led the producers to take an entire orchestra and complex sound system out to the New York City prison complex and play a program that ranged from Quartet for the End of Time (a piece written in, and for, a prison camp) to (this was brave) the Turangalîla Symphony.
Information Overload? New Survey Finds Most People Don’t Feel Overwhelmed
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the most part, the large majority of Americans do not feel that information overload is a problem for them. Some 20% say they feel overloaded by information, a decline from the 27% figure from a decade ago, while 77% say they like having so much information at their fingertips. Two-thirds (67%) say that having more information at their disposals actually helps to simplify their lives.”
Tech Is In A Big Showdown, And It’s Taking Place Inside Your House
Will Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or something entirely new win this round of understanding how humans speak naturally? (It’s a big deal because real artificial intelligence depends on this point. Oh, and the machines are always listening.)
We’ve Had Seven ‘Live’ Musicals On TV Now; What Have We Learned?
Here are five lessons, including the perhaps obvious pop singers aren’t Broadway singers, and they don’t show up well next to talent like Audra McDonald and Kelli O’Hara (but! They bring viewers!).