興行

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 興行（こうぎょう） means putting on a performance, screening, or similar event for an audience.
• Basic usage: Use it for a troupe staging a show or for discussion of the proceeds from such an undertaking.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Performance and its business aspect
  • 公演 focuses on the performance presented to an audience; 興行 can also focus on the business of drawing an audience and staging it.