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The Survival of an American Theater: An Intrinsic and Historical Case Study of the Success of Arena Stage /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Survival of an American Theater: An Intrinsic and Historical Case Study of the Success of Arena Stage // Kay Audrey Oliver.
Author:	Oliver, Kay Audrey,
Description:	1 electronic resource (202 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-08A.
Subject:	Theater studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31908199
ISBN:	9798304959094

The Survival of an American Theater: An Intrinsic and Historical Case Study of the Success of Arena Stage /
Oliver, Kay Audrey,

The Survival of an American Theater: An Intrinsic and Historical Case Study of the Success of Arena Stage /Kay Audrey Oliver. - 1 electronic resource (202 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: A.

Arena Stage was founded in 1950 in Washington, DC, by Zelda Fichandler, Tom Fichandler, and Edward Mangum. Today, Arena Stage serves a diverse annual audience of more than 300,000 people. It is the largest theater company dedicated to American plays and playwrights in the country. This study presents a single intrinsic historical case study of Arena Stage to examine the internal organizational structure and leadership dynamics that guided the theater through seven decades of turbulent American history. Arena Stage has provided world-class programming while the nation was grappling with the Vietnam War (1950?1975), Brown v. Board of Education (1954), political assassinations (e.g., John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, 1963?1968), the World Trade Center terrorist attack (2001), the election of the first Black president (2008), subsequent elections bombarded with election deniers and acts of insurrection (2021), the impeachment trials of sitting presidents Bill Clinton (1998) and Donald Trump (2019 and 2021), and the global COVID-19 pandemic that closed all theaters from 2020 to 2023. That Arena Stage survived is not in question; this dissertation aims to determine how it survived while many theaters were forced to close. Assumptions about Arena Stage?s success include strong leadership, artistic vision, community involvement, physical expansion, and awards received. Perhaps a combination of these factors creates success. This study sought evidence of success factors, termed as touchpoints. Are some factors necessary, while others are not? The results can provide an argument for what works, depending on similar demographics. This is important when understanding theaters? impact on social, political, cultural, and economic concerns. When nonprofit arts and culture organizations generate $151 billion annually in economic activity, it is worth noting how this happens. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive (https://aura.antioch.edu/) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu/).

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