The annual campaign, assembled
Eleven seasons of touring shows, filed as dispatches.
Latest dispatches
Every entry below once appeared on the site of a small-city presenter between 2007 and 2018. Filed here in order, each with its date and its file.
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The subscription drive
Why the season sold as a package first
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The twentieth-anniversary season
The season that marked twenty campaigns
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The tribute and tour nights
When the season borrowed Broadway
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The orchestra nights
The state's ensembles as the season's backbone
Section
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SEASONThe Seasons4
the annual campaigns, what a season took to assemble
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SHOWThe Shows4
the named touring acts that came through
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HOUSEThe House3
the room, the seats, the audience, the rituals
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DESKThe Desk3
the mechanics, board, tickets, history, money
A note from the desk
A small-city presenter ran on seasons: announce in spring, sell through summer, open in fall, close in spring. The dispatches here read that machinery year by year, the shows that came, the seats they filled, and the records a public archive kept of both.
Other desks
A homepage hung like an exhibition elsewhere in the network reads one personal site the same way this file reads one presenter. a homepage hung like an exhibition
A register of one cat breed keeps a different kind of program, the same devotion to a single subject this desk had for a season. a register of one cat breed
The literature table of a fellowship district documents the same small-town rooms where the touring nights played. the literature table
A parish bench tests the weekly practices of one congregation the way this file tests one season at a time. a parish bench
A plat book surveys a river town lot by lot, the geography of the same Ohio valley towns this presenter played.