The title of European Capitals of Culture represents a major opportunity for hosting cities to boost culture and tourism, but also to generate wider impacts on urban and regional development. Claims of long-term effects from a cultural, social and economic point of view are becoming increasingly...

The article provides an overview of Prison Theatre in Italy, an artistic form which in the past twenty years has gradually gained notoriety and prestige thanks to the work carried out by theatre directors such as Armando Punzo at the Carcere di Volterra or Fabio Cavalli at the Carcere di...

The relationship between the cultural labour market and the artistic and cultural training system are, indeed, problematic, last but not least for the lack of a general reference framework as well as of exhaustive data. This contribution focuses on the quite unsatisfactory role played in the...

The data available on performing arts tell us very little about the public (or - in a more correct way - «publics») and about the issues regarding cultural access within the field of performing arts. At the same time, the sector is currently facing a situation in which the role of public is...

The current situation in the performing arts sector is the result of extensive transformation processes still largely underway. Over the last several decades, business management attitudes and practices and consumer styles and behaviour have changed concurrently with the evolution of languages....