Arts organizations continue to create new work
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Category:
Statistic |
Issue(s) Addressed:
Building society/citizenship |
Attribution
The National Arts Index 2008, a project of Americans for the Arts
Item Text
The major performing arts disciplines continue to be exciting settings for the development and presentation of new work. Data on premieres by American theatre companies, symphony orchestras, operas, Broadway producers, and filmmakers are available from their trade associations: the Broadway League, League of American Orchestras, Motion Picture Association of America, Opera America, and Theatre Communications Group. These service organizations do valuable work in gathering information on their members’ activities and summarizing it for the public. They show over 1,100 new movies, plays, operas and symphonies premiered each year, a number that has grown annually since 2004. Premieres are often commissioned and planned years before the public sees them, so current economic problems are probably affecting the number of such new works that were planned in 2008 and 2009 for release in 2010 and beyond.
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Submitter Information
- Name: MENC staff
- Email: advocacy@menc.org