Friday, March 02, 2007

The Gated Theatre Community

Also from the same article by Dudley Cocke (see below):

With most (80 percent) of its audience drawn from the top 15 percent of the income scale, the assembled spectators for the typical not-for-profit professional theater production don’t look like any community in the U.S., except, perhaps, a gated one. From such a narrow social base, great democratic art will never rise.

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Think Again: Funding and Budgets in the Arts

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