July 7, 2024
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Connecticut theaters scramble after General Assembly redirects funds

In the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers reallocated several millions of dollars in pandemic federal funding originally allocated for more than a dozen performing theaters in the state, including Hartford Stage, New Haven’s Long Wharf Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. Now those theaters say they were blindsided by the funding cut, adding

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CT theater groups seek millions in funding lawmakers slashed

More than a dozen theater organizations — including the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Torrington’s Warner Theater, Waterbury’s Palace Theater and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford — are calling on state leaders to restore millions of dollars in funding that lawmakers slashed during the 2024 legislative session, which wrapped last month. Collectively,

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