{"id":1103,"date":"2007-12-04T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/12\/support_the_contents_or_the_bo\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:44:21","slug":"support_the_contents_or_the_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/support_the_contents_or_the_bo.php","title":{"rendered":"Support the contents or the box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian<\/i>&#8216;s Lyn Gardner offers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/theatre\/2007\/11\/without_a_play_an_empty_theatr.html\">a humble suggestion<\/a> for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/theatre\/article-23421845-details\/Levy+'needed+to+save+West+End+theatres'\/article.do\">proposed levy on tickets<\/a> to support London&#8217;s West End theater infrastructure: such money should support the contents before it supports the box. Says Gardner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>\nIn recent years, far too much public money has gone on capital projects and keeping the lavatories working in subsidised theatres, and far too little into the work that actually goes on stage. An empty theatre is just a building and nothing more, and if that building is not fit for 21st century theatrical purpose, then why not turn it into something else?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If we have to make choices between putting public money into bricks and mortar or into making art and nurturing the next generation of artists, I know where I want it to go.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The challenge, of course, is that both sides are right. The contents (at least in their current form) need a box. And the box needs content. The trick is finding a resource balance &#8212; from earned, contributed, and public funds &#8212; that grows the two together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&#8216;s Lyn Gardner offers a humble suggestion for a proposed levy on tickets to support London&#8217;s West End theater infrastructure: such money should support the contents before it supports the box. Says Gardner: In recent years, far too much public money has gone on capital projects and keeping the lavatories working in subsidised theatres, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}