When the Paramount Theatre learned a few months ago that the city of Aurora was planning to give the organization less funding than expected next year because of a projected budget deficit, theater officials announced they were cutting the BOLD Series of shows at the Copley Theatre.

At the time, those officials said that the city’s previously-communicated financial support of $7 million could be reduced by up to 65%. They warned that, if city funding for the organization did come in far under the $7 million mark, it would mean additional cuts.

But Aurora’s recently-proposed 2026 budget , which includes significant funding and staffing cuts for city departments, doesn’t just have a reduction in that previously-discussed funding for the Paramount. City and theater officials say it in

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