Nowadays social demand for art theaters is rapidly increasing, but academic functions for the social demand to develop them are not being properly conducted. To figure out the cause of it and suggest solutions for it, this study performs analysis on study trends for art theaters. To attain the goal, the paper collects domestic researches dealing with art theaters through electronic document search from Korea Education & Research Information Service and the National Assembly Library. After the process of multi-step classification, 215 researches are used for final analysis. And the study performs frequency analysis and cross analysis on the year of publication, subject, academic area, type of publication, and also study methods employed. According to the result, researches on art theaters are increasing gradually and are exerting positive effects; however, the history of the research is rather short, so it is limited to decide the flow of the study trends. Also, it has been found that researches on profit creation through art theaters are being actively performed maybe reflecting the social demand, and the area of play is equipped with the most advanced academic appearance. And the result shows that researches on art theaters are mostly master’s theses. In selecting the study methods as well, qualitative research methods are being used in most of them. Therefore, it will be necessary to conduct researches that are more diverse and profound and also employ positive methods.