"The most unkindest cut"
Often in hard economic times, the arts are among the first to suffer.
Take the plight - as reported by The Tribune's Ben Fulton - of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, which announced it would be cutting three full-time jobs, instituting a 2 percent pay cut for its remaining 22 employees, shortening the festival's summer season by a week, and scaling back the size of its productions.
"This is the tightest I have ever seen it in all my 30 years here at the festival," said R. Scott Phillips, USF's executive director.
The festival's summer season will now run June 29-Aug.29, and still include the four productions already planned: Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," "Henry V" and "As You Like It," and Noel Coward's "Private Lives."
But the fall season will undergo some changes. Big productions of Shakespeare's "Pericles" and the musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes" are out. In are "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)."
Take the plight - as reported by The Tribune's Ben Fulton - of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, which announced it would be cutting three full-time jobs, instituting a 2 percent pay cut for its remaining 22 employees, shortening the festival's summer season by a week, and scaling back the size of its productions.
"This is the tightest I have ever seen it in all my 30 years here at the festival," said R. Scott Phillips, USF's executive director.
The festival's summer season will now run June 29-Aug.29, and still include the four productions already planned: Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," "Henry V" and "As You Like It," and Noel Coward's "Private Lives."
But the fall season will undergo some changes. Big productions of Shakespeare's "Pericles" and the musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes" are out. In are "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)."
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