The headline of the article is How the Sequester Could Leave Actors Unemployed , which was published on http://www.backstage.com by Sean J. Miller March 12, 2013. The article deals with budget cuttings in theatres.
Firstly, the author writes that small and mid-sized theaters from New York to Los Angeles are bracing for the across-the-board cuts to federal funding mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Those cuts will include the National Endowment for the Arts, which helps theaters fund production costs through grants.
Secondly, the reader gets to know that The NEA is set to take a $7.3 million cut—5 percent of the agency's overall current budget—divided between its grants and administrative costs. Grants that have already been awarded aren’t expected to be reduced (although that can happen), but rather it is future funding that will be scaled back to meet the new fiscal reality.
Thirdly, Sean J. Miller points out that Other theater organizations are large enough to absorb the funding reductions. A spokesman for the New Dramatists Inc., a New York playwrights’ lab that mounts staged readings with paid actors, said it would “swallow it” if its NEA funding isn’t renewed. In 2012, New Dramatists received $100,000 from the NEA to help their playwrights’ development process.
Finally, the author makes a conclusion that with the federal government’s fiscal crisis likely to continue, it’s possible further cuts to arts funding could happen soon. With that in mind, advocates are organizing a National Arts Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill April 9. The rally is meant to dissuade lawmakers from chopping arts funds in the name of cost savings.
To my mind, this is a must for the federal government to read, because they can't leave people without art by cutting budget in theatres.
Firstly, the author writes that small and mid-sized theaters from New York to Los Angeles are bracing for the across-the-board cuts to federal funding mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Those cuts will include the National Endowment for the Arts, which helps theaters fund production costs through grants.
Secondly, the reader gets to know that The NEA is set to take a $7.3 million cut—5 percent of the agency's overall current budget—divided between its grants and administrative costs. Grants that have already been awarded aren’t expected to be reduced (although that can happen), but rather it is future funding that will be scaled back to meet the new fiscal reality.
Thirdly, Sean J. Miller points out that Other theater organizations are large enough to absorb the funding reductions. A spokesman for the New Dramatists Inc., a New York playwrights’ lab that mounts staged readings with paid actors, said it would “swallow it” if its NEA funding isn’t renewed. In 2012, New Dramatists received $100,000 from the NEA to help their playwrights’ development process.
Finally, the author makes a conclusion that with the federal government’s fiscal crisis likely to continue, it’s possible further cuts to arts funding could happen soon. With that in mind, advocates are organizing a National Arts Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill April 9. The rally is meant to dissuade lawmakers from chopping arts funds in the name of cost savings.
To my mind, this is a must for the federal government to read, because they can't leave people without art by cutting budget in theatres.
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