
This substack will cover topics related to arts and culture, in particular around theater management, executive search, and strategic overviews of the past and present of arts and culture in the US.
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Being different is hard. But it can be good business.
This is what I teach my students in my strategic governance course. Part of leading and managing an organization is understanding its strategy. First, though, you have to decide what st...
So, is the American nonprofit theater movement over?
Most of the people in a recent forum hosted by the DeVos Institute and Out of Hand Theater said yes. Practitioners and scholars alike. That wasn’t the news though, at least not to me.
W...
Last week I wrote that the first act of the regional theater movement is dead. I promised I’d come back with what might reverse the decline.
As I thought about how to move forward, it was hard for me to separate my management brain from my...
Death is a strange concept. Mainly because all of us mortals do not know what is on the other side of death. Only those who have died do. This can make death scary and frightening. People are afraid of what we can’t know or feel until it ha...
If you want a model for how the regional theater movement moves forward, look at Baltimore Center Stage.
The theater just announced contract extensions for Artistic Director Stevie Walker-Webb and Executive Director Ken-Matt Martin. The an...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Al is an Atlanta-based consultant and teacher. Formerly MD of Northwestern’s Wirtz Center, he has worked with Steppenwolf, The Guthrie, Yale Rep, and the O'Neill Center. He consults for arts organizations nationwide and teaches at Yale, FSU, and NU.
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