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It all started with a squeal. Jenna Winters , Box Office Manager at the Wisconsin Historical Society, was attending a Small Venues Breakout Session at an INTIX conference when another attendee introduced himself as being from Appleton, Wisconsin. For Winters, who grew up in Appleton, discovering a fellow Wisconsinite among the ticketing professionals gathered at the conference was pretty exciti

INTIX member Hayley Fowler-Rimell is the Director of Strategic Sales and Platform Growth at Protect Group , a leader in refundable bookings and ancillary products. Protect Group helps ticketing platforms, venues, promoters and event organizers reduce buyer hesitation without adding operational complexity. In her job, she focuses on enterprise sales and strategic growth across the business. It’

BritishTheatre.com (10/12/26) A 40th anniversary performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" has been filmed in front of a live audience at His Majesty's Theatre in London, the West End home where it first opened in 1986. The finished film will be released in movie theaters worldwide next year. The cameras captured the gala performance on Oct. 9, with beloved performers from the past four decades

KMBC 9 News (MO) (10/11/26) Graves, Eric After Kansas City council members approved the city's funding plan for a new Royals ballpark at Crown Center, building owners and operators bathed the city in blue in support of the deal. Overnight this past Saturday into Sunday, such landmarks as Bartle Hall, the Crown Center pavilion, the Kansas City Convention Center, and Union Station were lit blue t

San Jose Mercury News (10/12/26) Nowels, Michael In only their second season, the Golden State Valkyries have reached the WNBA Finals after defeating the defending-champion Las Vegas Aces in a semifinal series sweep. Their opponent will be the Atlanta Dream, which topped the New York Liberty in the other semifinal, with Game 1 set for Saturday, Oct. 17. The Valkyries earned home-court advantage

RECORD-BREAKING, GRAMMY AND ACM AWARD WINNER TO PLAY 19 STADIUMS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA IN 2027 WITH SUPPORT FROM JOHN FOGERTY, RYAN BINGHAM AND THE TEXAS GENTLEMEN, VANCE JOY, FEY FILI, GABRIELLA ROSE, AND EMMA OGIER REGISTER NOW FOR PRESALE AT ZACHBRYANPRESALE.COM TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 AT ZACHBRYAN.COM Global music star Zach Bryan today announced

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 14, 2026) — True Tickets, the secure digital ticket delivery service that helps arts and cultural organizations strengthen relationships with their audiences, today announced a new partnership with Washington Performing Arts, one of the nation’s most respected performing arts presenters. Through the partnership, Washington Performing Arts will implement True Tickets’ sec

BOSTON and VIENNA (October 13, 2026): True Tickets and easy-connect today announced a strategic partnership connecting the easy-connect ticketing, audience engagement, and loyalty mobile app with True Tickets’ full post-purchase ticket journey. For arts and cultural organizations that choose both platforms, the integration will create a more cohesive digital experience spanning mobile engagement,

From a family motorcycle business to banking, telecommunications and sales support, Ben Bray gained varied experience for more than eight years before finding his way into the ticketing industry. “I love being part of the ticketing community,” he says. “The thing that I love most about it is that there are so many different personalities, and those personalities are able to shine. It’s not heav

“The Rocky Horror Show” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” have become generational touchstones. Attending their performances are a way for stage and cinema fans to indeed “do a time warp again” and again and feel young, free, joyful and maybe even a bit naughty. This time each year, venues around the country mount the stage production and/or screen the classic film to attract Halloween-month au

IRVINE, Calif. — October 7, 2026 — Paciolan, a leading ticketing, fundraising, marketing, and analytics platform for live entertainment, today announced that Alanna Kitaeff has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Product. Kitaeff will lead product management and product design across the Paciolan suite, owning product strategy and the roadmap for the ticketing, fundraising, and m

ABC Action News 6 (09/29/26) Charania, Shams; Kaplan, Emily The Philadelphia 76ers and Flyers have taken the wraps off renderings of their new arena on the former Spectrum site in South Philadelphia, which the two organizations are touting as the biggest fully privately funded project in the city's history. The arena is currently targeted to open prior to the 2030 WNBA season when Philadelphia'

Playbill (10/02/26) Culwell-Block, Logan "DOLLY: A True Original Musical" has announced its Broadway cast and includes several holdovers from the bio-musical's 2025 world premiere in Nashville. Katie Rose Clarke has agreed to reprise as the lead Dolly Parton alongside Carrie St. Louis (also as Dolly) and Norah Nunes (as Little Dolly). Nunes was a member of the ensemble of the world premiere run

ABC 7 Chicago (10/01/26) Strauss, Ben Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a rooftop business across the street from historic Wrigley Field cannot sell tickets for people to watch Chicago Cubs baseball games. The team had sued Wrigley View Rooftop, contending it was illegally profiting off the Cubs' property without an agre

I was recently reflecting on what inspires member organizations to invest in INTIX memberships for multiple ticketing professionals, knowing firsthand that professional development requires a serious budget commitment and executive support. Having worked in and managed box offices myself — including at a performing arts center in Canada where I watched my own ticketing team managers return from I

Sacramento is one of the more underrated travel destinations in America. Not only is it California’s capital city, but it’s a college town thanks to Sacramento State University, an NBA town with the Sacramento Kings and it’s one of America’s best niche beverage markets with more than 50 independent craft breweries. Additionally, it's the temporary home of Major League Baseball's Athletics through

LONDON – 29 September 2026 – Basker, the website platform built for live events, now offers its AI website builder through self-service sign-up. The company believes it is the first openly available website builder that lets an organisation self-serve a site natively integrated end-to-end with a professional ticketing system – Tessitura, Spektrix, Tixly and others. Any venue, producer or festival

Digonex , the industry leader in automated, algorithm-driven dynamic pricing intelligence solutions for attractions and live entertainment, today announced several personnel moves to better support client growth and success. Digonex’s pricing intelligence solutions, developed by its team of seven PhD economists, combine human intelligence and insights with advances in AI and machine learning to d

Polish comedy agency Stand-Up Polska has selected Nuweb Group in a deal covering ticketing for over 700 events a year. Stand-Up Polska has spent 15 years building one of Poland’s leading comedy businesses. Its two nationwide tours alone sell more than 180,000 tickets across 53 cities each year. Through the partnership, Nuweb Group will provide the ticketing infrastructure behind Stand-Up Polsk

Yale University News (09/23/26) Murphy, Colleen Yale Athletics and Paciolan have announced a new partnership to provide technology solutions to enhance the ticket-buying experience for Bulldog fans. The multi-year accord will see Paciolan's ticketing software implemented throughout Yale's Athletic Department to streamline the purchasing process and enable digital access and ticket management. I