The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust, founded by the parents of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, have given $4 million to the Public Theater. The money will go toward the theater's free Shakespeare in the Park productions as well its capital campaign to revitalize its downtown home at Astor Place, a $40 million renovation of the building that houses five theaters and Joe's Pub and is nearing completion.
The gift, which was announced on Wednesday night by the theater's executive director, Patrick Willingham, is the Spitzers' first donation to the theater. Over the years their trust has supported a variety of projects including the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History and a stem-cell research project at Columbia University.
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