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 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...

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...

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"--

This paper studies the role and incidence of entry preemption strategic motives on the dynamics of new industries, while providing an empirical test for entry preemption, and quantifying its impact on market structure. The empirical context is the evolution of the U.S. drive-in theater market...