NEA Change in Priorities Results in South Coast Repertory Losing $20,000 Grant

UCLA, LACO, South Coast Rep: How Trump's NEA cuts are hitting home

National Endowment for the Arts, facing an existential threat from President Trump, cancels grants for L.A. Theatre Works, L.A. Chamber Orchestra and other groups — some of which already spent the funding based on an NEA recommendation.

NEA Change in Priorities Results in South Coast Repertory Losing $20,000 Grant

South Coast Repertory announced Monday it lost a $20,000 federal grant for a play on the day the theater company was celebrating its opening night due to a change in the National Endowment for the Arts’ grant-making priorities. The Costa Mesa-based theater company was notified Friday that its National Endowment for the Arts grant for “The Staircase” by Noa Gardner was being withdrawn. The grant did not finance the entire production, South Coast …