The Future
It’s Time To Leave Panic Mode Behind
Tue, May 5, 2020
by Drew McManus
There’s no shortage of panic inducing discussions and news floating around. Big budget groups like the Guthrie Theater and The Met have announced or are telegraphing the punch of prolonged closures that gut most of the 20/21 season. If that weren’t enough, the timing of service organization annual conferences happened to fall right when we’re
#TBT Commencement Season
Thu, May 5, 2018
by Drew McManus
It’s that time of year when colleges are sending their recent crop of graduates into the great unknown and that means commencement speeches. Based on experience, I try to avoid commencement speeches but every now and then, something really special turns up. Case in point, I posted something back in 2012 about Neil Gaiman’s Commencement
Where Did I Put Those Grumpy Pants?
Tue, Jan 1, 2018
by Drew McManus
Douglas Rosenthal published a delightful article at Who’s Your Audience? that puts a fun spin on the traditional New Year’s resolution theme by coming up with a shortlist of things he doesn’t want to hear you talking about connected to the classical music field. Admittedly, I write this post wearing my Grumpy Pants. But I’m
Are We Using “The Imprimatur Of A Brand Name As A Shortcut For Hiring Decisions?”
Wed, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
There’s a fantastic post by Joe Patti in the 7/24/17 edition of Butts In The Seats that examines a decision by Harvard University to suspend graduate admissions for their theatre program after multiple years of unacceptable debt-to-earning potential for graduates. Patti’s article is a riff on a Chicago Tribune article by chief theater critic and
Embracing Innovation Over Hibernation