Lincoln Center

  • Warning: Community Engagement on Social Media Nears Extinction for Brands

    Warning: Community Engagement on Social Media Nears Extinction for Brands

    Did someone in your marketing department cheer when Instagram announced that advertisements were nearing reality on the photo-sharing network? Send that person back to Social Media 101.

  • Iconic Movies Filmed at Lincoln Center

    Iconic Movies Filmed at Lincoln Center

    Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City is quite the visual landmark—Revson Fountain, the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall. So many iconic visuals collected in one center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, many drawing some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers to the destination.

  • 10 Questions for Erica Moss

    10 Questions for Erica Moss

    I recently took part in a Q&A for Erica Moss, a fellow journalist turned digital marketer that I “met” on Twitter. It was a mutual fascination with reality television that first got us chatting. Outside of her professional work, Erica runs a blog that includes a series of posts featuring various digital people.

  • Lincoln Center on Broadcastr

    Lincoln Center on Broadcastr

    Shortly after starting at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, I pitched an idea to create an mobile audio experience for the campus. My idea was to give visitors a chance to hear from artists as they stood in front of a particular venue, like Alan Gilbert discussing his role as the leader of the…

  • Portishead’s Adrian Utley Talks “The Passion of Joan of Arc”

    In order to promote a White Light Festival event at Lincoln Center, “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” I reached out to one of the artists involved, Portishead’s Adrian Utley, asking him to shoot a few answers to our questions while he was on tour with his band.

  • The Challenging Battle to Bring War Horse Puppets to Life

    “It’s been a huge challenge and a huge privilege,” War Horse’s playwright, Nick Stafford, recently told me after winning a Tony Award.  “In the beginning, it seemed like an impossible task to write this play.  To have the main character not be able to speak was a challenge.”

  • The Globe Shakespeare Coming to a Movie Theater Near You

    As the warm months of summer arrive, across the country, local communities are carrying on a long-running tradition of performing Shakespeare’s classic works in parks and outdoors venues.  New Yorkers have the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park series, currently playing in Central Park, while nearly every major city across the country has some form…

  • My Summer Blogging for Lincoln Center

    As summer rolled through New York City, and Broadway geared up for its latest season, I took time away from Times Square and travelled uptown, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where I spent the warmer months working as the cultural institutions first Blogger-in-Residence.

  • Bringing Country Music to Lincoln Center

    Remember those Pace Picante Sauce television commercials that ran throughout the 1980s. “This stuff is made in New York City,” a comical cowboy would say with horror after picking up a jar of salsa. A chorus of outraged cowboys would always follow that quip, screaming “New York City!” Before moving to New York City, I…