Belhaven News: New Stage on track to exceed capital campaign goal

By Sherry Lucas
slucas@clarionledger.com

A capital campaign for New Stage Theatre in Jackson may exceed its $1 million goal and has already funded critical theater enhancements at Mississippi’s only professional resident theater.

The theater has installed new rigging and lighting systems that’ll provide greater flexibility for productions and looks forward to retiring the building’s mortgage and creating a “nest egg cushion” for new productions and educational programs.

Delayed by Hurricane Katrina, the campaign announcement signals the kickoff of the public phase of fund-raising, which is already about 75 percent complete. The campaign will wrap up this fall.