This paper applies operations management analytical techniques to the non-profit performing arts to increase understanding of operational issues and inform service management strategy.
Recent research in the non-profit performing arts has shown that marketing efforts designed to increase revenue from ticket sales are not achieving the results required to sustain the performing arts.
Organized by the non-profit performing arts coalition Anamika-Navatman at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the evening showcased three South Asian a capella groups: city-based NY Masti, Stanford University's Raagapella, and Princeton University's Tarana.
On a recent sultry summer evening in Fulton Ferry Park, rehearsals were under way for "10 Stories: a Humble Offering to the Manhattan Skyline," from 'Scape, a not-for-profit performing arts company.
Presented by the Danbury-based non-profit performing arts organization Hat City Music Theater Inc., The American Prize recognizes talented performing artists in different areas who are considered "the very best". Prize-winners are chosen based on submitted recordings of their performances.
During our briefing session I was surprised to learn that the Big Apple Circus is a not-for-profit performing arts group with some excellent community outreach programs.
Any not-for-profit performing arts organization does not rely on ticket sales alone to sustain their operations.
This approach to pricing has been practiced for years by airlines, Broadway producers and many not-for-profit performing arts organizations.
Located in the Strand District, the Grand 1894 Opera House is a restored historic Romanesque Revival style Opera House that is currently operated as a not-for-profit performing arts theater.
Within the non-profit performing arts in America, there is a critical mass of venues that have contracts with their stagehands that are so unforgiving and unreasonable, notably in their handling of media use, that they may threaten the viability of the live performing arts in America.
In corporate hospitals doctors are pressurised to generate profit by performing unnecessary operations or procedures such as angioplasties.
