From thestage.co.uk

A Night Less Ordinary, Arts Council England’s free ticket scheme for under-26 year olds, is to be “curtailed” under plans unveiled by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to make £73 million of savings.

The proposed cuts to ANLO will form only a small part - around £100,000 - of the overall savings, which also include scrapping funding for the £45 million BFI Film Centre and £17 million for the Stonehenge visitor centre.

The DCMS is currently in discussions with ACE as to exactly how and to what extent the £2.5 million scheme will be cut, as many of the theatres taking part in the project are already signed up for two years, ending early in 2011. However, it is hoped that the move will save around £100,000.

A DCMS spokesperson told The Stage: “We are curtailing the A Night Less Ordinary free theatre ticket scheme as far as contractually possible. The department will work with Arts Council England to determine how this can best be done, given the contracts already in place, and from that determine what savings will be made.”

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