St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, which serves as home base for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Opera, as well as hosting traveling theatre productions, is officially in the black for the fourth year in a row, following years of fiscal struggle. However, the center had to take $1.7 million out of its endowment to break even. “The Ordway is mulling a joint campaign with its resident arts organizations… to create [a separate endowment] that would help to underwrite the cost of performances at the Ordway.”