I study the expenditures of the Comédie française from 1759 to 1793 and the company's debt from 1723 to 1793. Expenditures were well controlled and changes in venues account for their increase over time. The debt, however, was less controlled, because of the company's partnership structure and...

Indian theatre is at least 5000 years old and is inseparable part of Indian culture. Indian theater in course of its long journey has influenced the rest of the world’s theater and in turn also has imbibed few features of the rest of world’s theater. The western influence is more on urban...

The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced performing arts organizations to shut down operations, and considerable uncertainty about future demand exists. We develop a data-driven framework and decision support tool to explain and predict demand for live, in-person arts performances in the time of COVID. Our...

The study aims at evaluating the efficiency of opera houses by using a quantitative approach that takes into account both the internal managerial inefficiency, related to a non optimal use of resources in producing cultural output, and the component of efficiency that could be ascribed to the...

The current coronavirus pandemic has caused many industry closures in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. In one of the hardest-hit states, New York, Broadway shuttered on March 17, 2020, and has yet to reopen. Many states followed suit and theatres worldwide have gone dark. The...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of African-American (A-A) participation as audience members in the performing arts, e.g., orchestras. Specifically, the focus is on understanding the reasons for lower participation rates of A-A’s relative to Whites. In...

Der deutsche Theaterbetrieb befindet sich im Krisenmodus. Intransparenz, Missmanagement und Machtmissbrauch deuten auf Probleme in den Informations- und Entscheidungsstrukturen hin. Wie aber funktioniert die Kommunikation im Theater? Wie werden Informationen zwischen Mitarbeiter*innen,...

"This book discusses how an internationally renowned ballet company sustained itself without financial support for years because of the energy and manipulations of its charismatic founder, Serge Diaghilev, while also reshaping modern ballet and music"--

Arts entrepreneurship in creative arts education in Ghana has been relatively well documented. However, research into how theatre and film education contribute to arts entrepreneurship is rare in this growing scholarship in Africa. This chapter contributes to this stage of scholarship by...