Performing arts presenting organizations facilitate exchanges between artists and audiences through creative, educational, and performance opportunities. The work that these artists perform is produced outside of the presenting organization.
"The Capacity of Performing Arts Presenting Organizations,"
by Mark A. Hager and Thomas H. Pollak, The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that carries out economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions". The institute receives funding from government contracts, foundations and pr ...
, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, April 2002.
Performing arts presenters are typically found in three varieties:
*Those attached to a college, university, or other educational institution, with performances usually taking place on campus;
*Those that are an administrative branch of a theater or concert hall, usually presenting performances only in that space;
*Those that are independently administered outside any specific venue, usually renting multiple venues for performances.
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters, located in Washington, D.C., is the largest organizing body of performing arts presenters in the United States. The primary international organizing body of performing arts presenters is the International Society for the Performing Art
Performing arts presenters in the United States
Texas Performing Arts (The University of Texas, Austin, TX)
* Celebrity Series of Boston
The Celebrity Series of Boston is a non-profit performing arts presenter established in Boston, Massachusetts by Boston impresario Aaron Richmond in 1938 as Aaron Richmond's Celebrity Series. Since its founding the Celebrity Series has evolved in ...
( Boston, Massachusetts)
* Rockport Music ( Rockport, Massachusetts)
* University Musical Society ( Ann Arbor, Michigan)
* Whitefish Theatre Company (Whitefish, Montana
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History
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* Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College is located at 4 East Wheelock Street in Hanover, New Hampshire. The center, which was designed by Wallace Harrison and foreshadows his later design of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is the college's cu ...
(Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...
, Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 11,870. The town is home to the Ivy League university Dartmouth College, the U.S. Army Corps of En ...
)
* The Music Hall, ( Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
Philharmonic Society of Orange County
(Irvine, California
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)
See also
* Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousa ...
* Performing arts
* Performing arts education Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. The performing arts, which include, but are not limited to dance, music and theat ...
* Family entertainment center
A family entertainment center, often abbreviated FEC in the entertainment industry also known as an indoor amusement park, family amusement center, family fun center, or simply fun center, is a small amusement park marketed towards families with s ...
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