NEA Cuts Would Be Catastrophic for Theater Actors
On July 31, the House appropriations committee convened to vote on the upcoming fiscal year’s budget for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The appropriations subcommittee put forth a bill to reduce the NEA’s funding to $75 million—a level not seen since 1974. But the ruling has been suspended until after Labor Day, leaving arts organizations across th…