The Playhouse at White Lake has announced three grants this month. The Playhouse received a $21,401 grant from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, an $11,300 grant from the White Lake Area Women and a $2,500 grant from the Bookstock Fund.
The MACC grant will support the purchase of lighting instruments for the Playhouse stage, help fund the production of the annual Summer Theatre Festival and provide social media training for Playhouse staff. The summer festival takes place in July and August each year, with events usually announced in the spring.
The White Lake Area Women grant will also help support the Summer Theatre Festival, as well as helping provide free tickets to Playhouse performances for low-income local seniors and funding the arts education brand of the White Lake Youth Theatre.
Bookstock's grant will also help support the White Lake Youth Theatre through its council, which offers leadership arts opportunities to middle and high school students, aiming to support the next generation of theatre arts leaders. This funding will help the council with its second self-written script, which has a working title "Don't Say the M Word," and is "a teen-led quest to bring Shakespeare into the modern era." The play will be edited by students once the script is complete.
