Fine Arts Are in Survival Mode as Funds Dry Up
When soaring gas prices, plummeting tourism and a big drop in contributions threw it into financial crisis, the Kentucky Repertory Theatre in Horse Cave enlisted actor and native Kentuckian George Clooney to help raise $350,000.
The Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City dealt with dwindling donations by shortening its summer season and putting on plays with smaller, less-expensive casts in its fall season.
- Companies:
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival
- Americans for the Arts
- Baltimore Chamber Orchestra
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Baltimore Opera
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Baltimore Theatre Project
- Brandeis University
- Carnegie Hall
- Centerstage
- Connecticut Opera
- Florida Repertory Theatre
- General Motors
- Kentucky Repertory Theatre
- League of American Orchestras
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Opera America
- Opera Pacific
- Palm Springs Art Museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Rose Art Museum
- Saturn
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- The Los Angeles Opera
- USA Today
- Utah Shakespearean Festival
- Walters Art Museum
- Washington National Opera
- People:
- Alabama Shakespeare
- Andy Warhol
- Bob Bogard
- Bob Cacioppo
- Brian Passey
- Brian Riedl
- Debbie Chinn
- Doreen Bolger
- Gary Vikan
- Jack Kingston
- Jane Shannahan
- Jasper Johns
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Jesse Rosen
- Josh Bivens
- Judith Egerton
- Kentuckian George Clooney
- Laura Ruane
- Legg Mason
- Lockwood Hoehl
- M. Kevin Wixted
- Marc Scorca
- Marty Roney
- Obama
- Pablo Picasso
- Randi Vega
- Robert Lynch
- Stefanie Frith
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