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Southwest Tennessee Community College received a $500,000 grant from the Assisi Foundation to aid its Southwest Entertainment Production Initiative.
When Brett Batterson was 7, his father died of a heart attack. Only 30 at the time and suffering from an undiagnosed heart ailment, Batterson's father was chaperoning at a camp for Boy Scouts ...
Brett Batterson was only 7 when his father died of a heart attack. “It was during the ’60s, and adults didn’t encourage kids to go through a grieving process, and I felt I was the only kid w ...
This week, we caught up with a group that believes in mending hearts with the arts. Brett Batterson is the president and ceo of the Orpheum Theater Group. He is also the creator of the Mending ...
Orpheum Theatre CEO Brett Batterson announces new Broadway season lineup Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants Study shows how long Social Security ...
The Memphis Development Foundation/Orpheum Theatre today announced that Brett Batterson has been selected as the new president and CEO of the organization. Batterson succeeds Pat Halloran who will ...
Brett Batterson, the executive director of the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago since 2004, has taken a new job in Memphis. Batterson, the Auditorium has announced, has accepted the position of ...
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But with our stage sitting empty for the time being, we had to get creative,” said Brett Batterson. Golf and theater are two things not often associated. But, the Orpheum Theatre Group will take ...
“We are standing on the only Broadway-themed mini golf course that we know of in the world,” said CEO Brett Batterson. Batterson said he thought of the idea in a moment of ...
"I always want the newest and biggest and best from Broadway," said Orpheum President Brett Batterson, citing "Kimberly Akimbo" and the musical adaptation of the classic 1959 comedy "Some Like It ...
This was 2013, and Brett Batterson, the executive director of the Auditorium Theatre at the time, had just read about a survey by the advocacy group Americans for the Arts that revealed that 92 ...