Nov 26, 2025 | Studies - COVID
Following our groundbreaking reports into British theatre repertoire in 2013 and 2014, the British Theatre Consortium has produced a major new report on British theatre either side of the Covid pandemic, based on figures for 2019 and 2023. Based on aggregated box...
Mar 24, 2025 | Studies - Arts & Culture, Studies - COVID
Forging Freelance Futures is Creative UK’s comprehensive report into the freelance economy of the cultural and creative industries. Based on a survey of 1272 freelancers and 221 organisations, as well as a series of regional focus groups, this report seeks to...
Jan 31, 2025 | Studies - COVID
This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic...
May 16, 2024 | Studies - COVID
A report exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected young people embarking on a career in the performing arts.Tonic has collaborated with Central School of Speech and Drama on a piece of research which seeks to understand the needs and concerns of young people...
Nov 23, 2023 | Studies - COVID
Covid had devastating effects on cities around the world. Alongside the loss of life and health, the pandemic had a wide range of socio-economic consequences for urban communities, including damaging impacts on cultural life. While researchers have examined the...
Nov 22, 2023 | Studies - Arts & Culture, Studies - COVID
Creatives in Crisis is a research project which aims to explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on creative freelancers, and to look at how freelancers are mobilising online communities in response. Creatives in Crisis is a research project which aims to explore...
