Each year, TCG conducts a comprehensive fiscal survey, which is the basis for Theatre Facts, TCG’s annual in-depth theatre field report.
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Special Report on Education 2011: Indispensable Resources
Since 1999, the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has been leading the way in providing theater professionals with the latest research, statistics and teaching methods arts education. TCG recently released their “Special Report on Education 2011: Indispensable Resources,” which reveals that workshops and classes in school have now become the most common form of arts education programming. The report compiles the essential arts education resources from the past year along with results from TCG’s Education Survey 2011. PRESS RELEASE
Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Psychological Vulnerability in Actors
For actors, the imaginative psychological process of realizing the life of a character is fundamental. Given this ability, we asked the question, do actors demonstrate increased psychological self-other awareness, including more resolution for past mourning, as compared with a control group?
Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value of Performing Arts Activities
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it,” said American author Henry David Thoreau more than 150 years ago. Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value of Performing Arts Activities is a new research note from the National Endowment for the Arts that looks at the value of the arts in three ways: time spent on arts activities; organizational revenue and expenses; and direct consumer spending. A particular focus on performing arts data provides consistency across these three measurements.
Still Kicking: Aging Performing Artists in NYC and LA Metro Areas
Aging performing artists, whose diverse work includes acting, directing, choreography, and music performance and spans over seven decades, share with RCAC how they are “Still Kicking.”
Business Support to Theatres
Theatre Facts 2007, published by Theatre Communications Groups, reports that business support of theatres was at its second highest level in 2007. The average theatre went from receiving support from 31 businesses in 2003 to 34 businesses in 2007. Roughly 13% of business grants to theatres support education programs.
