Backstage: In the past, 99-seat theaters employing Equity members were limited to charging a maximum of $18 for admission. After the shift was formally made at the end of January, theaters are no longer required to cap prices. Small theaters are now able to adjust ticket prices to their liking, allowing for increased profit margins and the possibility for increased pay for participating performers. There is, however, still a limit on how many tickets can be sold per performance.
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Money!!! its that time of the year again where we find out how much money the government wants to put into the arts. This not being the only article I have seen recently about what funds have gone where serves as a reminder of how underfunded everything can be. The issues here is that first there isn't a lot of money being given to the arts when you look at it on the per person dollar amount, and it can be hard to get. They don't make it easy to write grants and proposals to get funding to these smaller arts organizations. The big problem here is that the larger groups who already have decent funds have the staffing to write these things, but the smaller ones don't. It is often the smaller groups that need some money and can get overlooked because the "big" dollars go to these other groups. I think this is a classic issue that should be fixed in the most classic American way, throw more money at it!
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