THEATER AND PERFORMING ARTS INDUSTRIES

Theater and performing Arts Industries: Play Production

Theater and performing Arts Industries: Play Production

Outlines

The theater and performing arts industries involve the study of the social context of theater, motion pictures, drama, music, dance, and opera. These are distinguished from the visual arts such as painting, sculpture, and photography since they are expressed somatically, using the artist's own body, face, and/or presence as a medium. Sociological research on the theater and performing art ranges from trying to formulate an understanding of the social roots of artistic production, distribution, and consumption to work on the relationship between arts institutions, audiences ...