The Editor's View: No alarms and no surprises in NPO funding

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Budget was a crushing disappointment for theatre sector

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Alistair Smith is editor of The Stage. He is also the author of two major industry reports (the London Theatre Report and the Theatre Workforce Review) and is the chair of theatre careers charity Get Into Theatre.

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