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Yale gets $18M to endow New Theatre center

April 28, 2012 12:00 am • Last Updated: April 27, 2012 3:54 pm

Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre have received an $18 million gift to permanently endow the university's Center for New Theatre, for development and production of new plays and musicals.

Yale announced the gift from Minnesota-based Robina Foundation Wednesday evening. The Center for New Theatre is being renamed for the foundation's creator, James Binger, a businessman, theatre impresario and philanthropist who died in 2004.

The center was established in 2008 with a $2.85 million grant from Robina, and funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and individual donors.

-Associated Press

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