Inside out.(From the Executive Director)
American Theatre, February, 2004 by Cameron, Ben
Last month in this column, I charged us all to reevaluate our commitment to advocacy. Need a reason? Consider the 42-percent drop in city/county and local funding to theatres, as reported in Theatre Facts 2002, or the more recent report on state giving from the National Assembly of Arts Organizations, which traces a two-year erosion of aggregate state funding from more than $440 million to today's roughly $260 million.
Corporations and many foundations continue to re-prioritize to the disproportionate detriment of the arts. Was anyone in the theatre community truly surprised by the ...
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