This Note is the first of a three part presentation of information from the 1982 Census of Service Industries about the location of performing arts organizations (excluding motion picture companies) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It examines the 8,322 performing arts organizations in terms of nonprofit (tax-exempt) and for-profit (taxable) organizations, their revenues/receipts, and their state locations.

This Note is the second part of the presentation of information from the 1982 Census of Service Industries about the location of performing arts organizations. It subdivides performing arts organizations into four groups in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors: (1) producers of theatrical productions, (2) dance groups, (3) classical music organizations, and (4) all other performing arts organizations; and then presents information on the average size of organizations in these four groups in the states and in the four major regions of the U.S.

This Note is the third and final in the presentation of information from the 1982 Census of Service Industries about the location of performing arts organizations. It presents information on seventeen selected fields of performing arts. These fields are: (1) resident theaters (LORT contracts), (2) stock theaters, (3) Broadway productions and road shows, (4) Off-Broadway productions, (5) Off-Off-Broadway productions, (6) children’s theaters, (7) dinner theaters, (8) community theaters, (9) ballet companies, (10) modern dance companies, (11) folk/ethnic dance companies, (12) symphony orchestras, (13) opera companies, (14) chamber music groups, (15) jazz music groups, (16) choral music groups, and (17) dance or stage bands or orchestras.

• Grants to organizations. Application guidelines / National Endowment for the Arts., 1994
• Grants to organizations. Application forms : heritage & preservation, education & access, creation, 1996/1997
• Grants to organizations. Application guidelines / National Endowment for the Arts., 1996/1997
• Grants to organizations / National Endowment for the Arts., 1998
• Grants to organizations / National Endowment for the Arts., 2002

“This publication was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program.”

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