Huntington Theatre Needs $480,000

Reporter Catherine Foster checked on a recent e-mail blast from the Huntington Theatre Company asking for contributions to help raise $480,000 needed to balance its budget by the end of June:

"Ticket sales, the e-mail from David Wimberly, chair of the board of trustees, said, only covers 55 percent of the cost of running the Huntington and contributions are needed to fill the gap. So is the company in dire straits? No, says managing director Michael Maso. The sum being asked for is not substantially different than in years past. And these kind of year-end drives are common in the non-profit world. "We We often raise a third of our contributed dollars in the last six to eight weeks," he says. "Partly it's about reminding our friends who intend to give that it's time to do so."