Douglas McLennan

4 weeks ago | artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan

Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) invites dynamic and enterprising leaders with a passion for music to apply for the role of Executive Director of this highly respected regional orchestra. The Executive Director will lead the entire PSO team - musicians, staff, and Board - in charting a path for continuing impact and artistic achievement as the orchestra enters its second century as a premier cultural institution within the state of Maine.

4 weeks ago | artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan

About the OpportunityTexas Performing Arts (TPA) is the professional arts presenting and producing program of The University of Texas at Austin. One of the largest and most active university-based performing arts centers in the U.S., TPA is an anchor institution in Austin's arts, cultural, and entertainment landscape. With a population of nearly 1 million people, Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

4 weeks ago | fjordreview.com | Douglas McLennan

At this year’s Resolution Festival in London, one of the city’s major events of the dance calendar, I found myself in a conversation about the state of affairs of dance internationally. Among discussion of funding cuts and artistic directors behaving badly, I brought up the exciting news that Ireland was to have a national dance company for the first time in a long time. I was largely met with puzzlement.

2 months ago | postalley.org | Douglas McLennan

Any forensic accounting of a relationship can’t help but be colored by the weight of its history. But here’s a twist: the conceit in the telling of Cathy and Jamie’s relationship in “The Last Five Years,” now playing at ACT, is that each partner tells the story starting from different ends of the relationship. Jamie, a writer whose career in the New York publishing world skyrockets while they’re together, starts at the beginning, full of excitement and possibility.

Jan 12, 2025 | artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan

Artists often conflate creativity with skill. It's not surprising. The ranks of successful artists have largely been confined to those who not only have compelling creativity and vision but also have or have access to the specialized skills required to execute on that creativity. So how much of a piece of art is creativity and how much is skill? For the sake of argument, let's say it's perhaps ten percent inspiration and ninety percent skills, depending on the medium and project.