FUS, Extra FUS e spesa regionale. La riforma dello spettacolo dal vivo in Italia e i suoi effetti territoriali (2014-2020)

In the last decade, an articulate series of legislative initiatives intervened on the Italian performing arts institutional framework. Although several studies have analysed this process, its effects on the regional scale still need to be addressed. This work therefore aims at identifying some economic trends in the performing arts sector in the period 2014-2020, focusing on public expenditure on the State and regional level through extensive quantitative research. For the first time, the financial records of 5.261 enterprises of the performing arts sector are compared to the budgetary provisions of the Ministry of Culture and to the expenditure of 86 Banking foundations, 20 Regions, 4 Provinces, 7 Metropolitan cities, and 62 Municipalities. The present study offers a preliminary analysis of a broader and still ongoing research, revealing a problematic and sometimes unexpected overview of the behaviour of the theatrical market in an age of deep transformations.