England’s Theatre Funding Is Too London-Centric (Says London Critic)

“[The] real inequality is between the funding that pours into London, and that which goes to the rest of the country. Out of £325m distributed by ACE, £168m goes to London. Put simply, the founding vision of JM Keynes for the Arts Council ‘to decentralise and disperse the dramatic and musical and artistic life of this country’ has not materialised.”