A case study of Crossroads Theatre: A regional African American theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Key organizational theories and concepts, including leadership, communication, marketing and fundraising, were reviewed and then applied to the case study examination of Crossroads Theatre, a prominent African American theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Crossroads Theatre, a professional identity-based theatre, established in 1978, was well-known for being an artistic home and community for African American artists, directors, actors and playwrights; and it is the only African American theatre to win a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Even with celebrity support from actors including Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad, and numerous awards for outstanding service, the theatre was forced to suspend operations in 2001 due to a financial debt of approximately $2 million. The case study sought to understand the factors, both internal and external, that led to the suspension. Primary and secondary data was obtained through written surveys and phone interview with former staff and board members of the theatre. Questions were asked in order to obtain information regarding the leadership, communication, marketing and fundraising organizational structures and culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".