Happening Now

Articles that have caught our attention, blog posts, and updates about our clients, our firm, and the arts, culture and entertainment sector.

Podcast: Return or Transformation

In Patternmakers’ Theory of Creativity series, supported by Creative Victoria, AMS Principal Steven Wolff discusses the essential transformation of anchor arts and cultural institutions as

AMS Welcomes New Fellow Anna Zheng

AMS is pleased to welcome our third Fellow in our Pathways to Consulting Fellowship, Anna Zheng. Anna’s term begins in April and will end in

AMS Congratulates Bari Newport and Miami’s GableStage

Bari Newport, currently Producing Director at Penobscot Theatre in Maine, has been named the new Producing Artistic Director of GableStage. As long-time strategic counsel to

AMS Congratulates CAPA and Shubert New Haven, New Executive Director, Anthony McDonald

The AMS team is pleased to congratulate incoming Executive Director, Anthony McDonald on his new role. AMS Planning & Research facilitated a search process for

AMS Principal Steven Wolff Delivers Keynote at Ro.ME Museum Exhibition

On Thanksgiving Day, AMS Principal Steven Wolff remotely delivered a keynote address, “Reimagining Return – New Models post-COVID?” to the third edition of the Ro.Me

AMS Welcomes New Fellow Gregory Keng Strasser

AMS is pleased to welcome our new fellow, Gregory Keng Strasser. Gregory’s term with AMS will begin in October and close at the end of

AIANY Summer Series Conversation: Sorting Through What’s Next for Our Cultural Facilities

In June, the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee organized a panel to discuss preparing our cultural facilities for the future. The panel, including AMS Principal Steven

A Symphony of Confusion: Sorting Through What’s Next for Our Cultural Facilities

AMS Principal Steven Wolff joins a panel of industry colleagues to discuss how we can design and plan cultural facilities in the short-term pandemic-era and

Publications

We’re pleased and proud when our work can serve not only the success of individual clients, but also the resilience of the larger arts and culture field. This page includes links and listings of some of the long-form articles, chapters, reports, and resources we’ve developed that are available to the public.

Reporting handbook for Performing Arts Centers

Performing arts centers (PACs) have long tracked performance indicators and many have engaged in formal benchmarking for over a decade. Still, until now, the sector has yet to formally address the need for a rigorous, singular source of performance measures and definitions. This manual represents a first effort toward that goal and contains the work and thought of professionals throughout the PAC sector. Performance reporting is crucial to communicating the role and relevancy of Performing

Performing Arts Center Management

AMS President Steven A. Wolff contributed a chapter entitled “The Evolution of the Performing Arts Center: What Does Success Look Like?” to the 2017 Routledge book, Performing Arts Center Management.

The Evolved Performing Arts Centre

In an article for Arts Centre Melbourne’s magazine, Encore, AMS Principal Steven A. Wolff details the evolution of “public value” among a particularly complex group of arts organizations: performing arts centers. Modern performing arts centers like Arts Centre Melbourne which officially opened in 1984 were relatively new concepts that dated back only to the 1960s. But now, they have become highly sophisticated businesses run by expert professional staff and guided by deeply engaged boards.

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