Lyn Gardner isn’t cool with the usual suspects thrashing it out on stage without considering their audience. “If the arts, and theatre in particular, wants to genuinely respond and enter into meaningful dialogues with those who feel excluded and disenfranchised, it needs to look outward not inward.”
Category: AUDIENCE
The Million People Who Make Up The ‘Symphony’ Of Brasilia
The thing about Brasilia is that it’s so carefully planned and geometric that it’s hard to find the place where people meet up. One photographer, originally from a rural town, figured out where to find everyone: The central transport station.
Let’s Talk About ‘Reading’ And Audiobooks
It turns out that talking about audiobooks means talking about government programs for people with visual disabilities and blindness, and that means talking about who chooses what gets recorded – and all of the politics that go along with that.
Congress Makes A Law Banning Online Ticket Bots – Will It Help?
But let’s get serious here: The secondary market for tickets is worth something like $8 billion, so what do the scalpers care about a little bill banning their bots?
The Lost Power Of ‘Life’ Magazine
Two in-the-theatres-now movies remind us that Life Magazine once set the national agenda. “Looking back at Life now is a bit of a shock. All those pages! All those ads! And how strange to think there was once a time when only a handful of trusted sources were delivering our news.”
Are DC’s Big Theaters Hoarding Their Audience Pools Instead Of Sharing Them?
The good news from a decade-long study of the area’s seven major pro companies is that audiences there aren’t tapped out, they’re growing (even subscriptions increased!). But there was one startling finding: “A whopping 85 percent of audiences patronize a single troupe.”
If We Really Want Diversity In The Arts, It’s Time To Bring Back Quotas
Genuine quotas were explicitly tried in Britain in the 1980s, and they failed. Well, they were sort of tried – Christy Romer argues that the attempt wasn’t serious, and that now’s the time to try to do it properly.
Publisher And Author Withdraw Children’s-Book Parody After Too Many People Fail To See The Joke
Some of the reaction seems to be Poe’s Law in action (though you’d think the title – Bad Little Children’s Books: KidLit Parodies, Shameless Spoofs, and Offensively Tweaked Covers – would clue folks in), and some seems to be indignant virtue-signaling.
My Very First Classical Concert Was In My Own Living Room (And It Was Amazing)
Tamara Best: “I barely listen to classical music, so how did a live string quartet end up in my apartment on a Saturday night?” (The answer: Groupmuse.)
This Week In Audience: Are Our Common Cultural Experiences Suffering Because Of High Ticket Prices?
This Week: A relation between common experiences and ticket prices?… Some clues about why arts audiences in Canada have declined over 20 years… Netflix taxes reflect changing culture… Does culture have to have social or political relevance?