Live indoor performances resume 1 August – Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson announced today that live indoor performances will be able to resume from 1 August 2020 with a socially distanced audience.
Boris Johnson announced today that live indoor performances will be able to resume from 1 August 2020 with a socially distanced audience.
It appears that for many theatres in the West End and around the UK, the government’s £1.57 billion arts aid package may be too late, with little clarification on who might be eligible many are now entering into redundancy consultations.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre is entering a period of redundancy consultations as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
The arts industries made it known catastrophe lay ahead unless Coronavirus package came from the government. A £1.57 billion package is announced.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the Government “roadmap to re-opening English theatres”. All we have is a bit of scribble, with no funding and no timings.
The Theatre Royal Plymouth has confirmed that more that 100 jobs are at risk as the theatre struggles to survive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is using the London Palladium as a test site to try out various COVID-19 prevention measures in the hope of getting theatres open again.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh today announced that Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, The Phantom and Hamilton will not return to the West End until 2021.