Attendees of at least one theatre event in the past 3 years
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
* The sample was conducted with a sampling agency to create a representative sample of theater attendees in the UK. The survey was complemented with attendees from abroad: 1,006 theatre attendees from the UK, 200 attendees from the US, 100 from Australia, 100 from Ireland and 50 from Germany.
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Barriers to live theater attendance in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013
This statistic displays the primary barriers to live theater performance attendance according to theater attendees in the United Kingdom as of 2013. The most common barrier was cost, with 35 percent of respondents reporting this as their main reason for not attending the theater.
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