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Baltimore Shakespeare Festival Closes

April 8, 2011

The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival has closed, the result of insurmountable financial struggles, reports The Baltimore Sun. Although the theater group received a $1-million donation in 2007 meant to establish an endowment, officials there said they ended up having to use the money to pay off debt and finance the next season.


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