The British government will spend nearly $2 billion to help rescue the nation's theater, museum and arts sectors. The package will include grants and loans they can use to pay salaries and maintenance costs as they try to survive the COVID-19 recession.
London's Lyceum Theatre is wrapped in pink tape bearing the words"Missing Live Theatre," part of a campaign by a group of British stage designers.Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The rescue package will include grants and loans that theaters, museums, live music organizations and others can use to pay salaries and maintenance costs as they try to survive the COVID-19 recession., the famed London theater."The government is rightly recognizing that investment in thriving sectors at a point of crisis is a good investment, and what we don't want to do is come out of lockdown to have theaters boarded up, restaurants boarded up [and] shops unvisited wastelands.
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