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MTC announces multi-million partnership with Crown Resorts Foundation

The five-year, $2.5-million-dollar partnership has the support of the philanthropic wing of global entertainment group Crown.

22 Jul 2014

Richard Watts

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A scene from the MTC’s 2013 production of David Williamson’s Rupert. Photo: Jeff Busby

Providing up to 10,000 disadvantaged students each year with $5 theatre tickets, and disadvantaged families with $5 tickets to family shows, are among the areas of cultural activity set to benefit from the Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) new relationship with the Crown Resorts Foundation.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts