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(Cedar City-AP) -- The Utah Shakespearean Festival has been awarded a 25-thousand dollar grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The grant will go to help fund the festival's annual tour of rural schools throughout Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada.
Managing director Scott Phillips says the tour costs about 200-thousand dollars and actors sometimes travel up to 600 miles for a performance.
The awards were given to 22 theater companies around the country, including the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. They were announced yesterday, on the 440th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth.
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