By Bruce Haring
Broadway Producers Pledge $1M Match To COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund
24.03.2020 - 16:41 / deadline.com
By Greg Evans
Associate Editor/Broadway Critic
More than 20 Broadway producers have pledged $1 million in matching funds for the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The producers will match every new donation made by the public up to the million-dollar mark.
With the pledge, fund organizers have set a $2 million goal by April 12.
The emergency assistance fund, administered by The Actors Fund, is designed to help onstage, backstage and behind the scenes
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