Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant — the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages — isn’t exactly a new Federal Theater Project.
But according to Nataki Garrett, the arts leader who has become one of the country’s most vocal advocates for government support of the theater sector, the SVOG represents a dawning bipartisan realization of just how important the arts are to the health of the nation’s economy.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“The march towards getting access to [what was then called] the SOS was revelatory for a lot of our theaters,” said Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast..
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