The Theatres Trust

Event: Kids Week 13 - 27 August

25th June 2010

There’s no business like show business and the biggest deal of all for families this summer is the much-loved and eagerly awaited annual initiative – Kids Week in the West End! Now in its 13th year, Kids Week offers children aged 5-16 the opportunity to experience the magic of London theatre for FREE! From 13 to 27 August 2010, head to London’s West End for a fortnight of theatre fun.

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Short-term relief as Arts Council England cushions cuts

24th June 2010

Leading industry figures have welcomed Arts Council England’s decision to cushion frontline arts organisations from the impact of the in-year cuts it has been asked to make by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ACE’s regularly funded organisations will have to make only 0.5% of cuts to their 2010/11 budgets, amounting to an average of around £2,000 each.

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Tim Ronalds Architects’ performing arts centre, Sevenoaks School, Kent

24th June 2010

Tim Ronalds Architects’ performing arts centre for Sevenoaks School in Kent is a tough, unyielding and tactile development, with acoustic design that is totally integrated with the architecture, writes Felix Mara for Architects Journal.

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Extension for Sheppey Little Theatre, Sheerness

24th June 2010

Planning Application: SW/10/0772 CLD

Swale Borough Council has consulted The Theatres Trust on an application to demolish an existing ground floor extension at the Sheppey Little Theatre and construct a new two-storey extension.

The Theatres Trust supported the application. Read the Trust’s response.

To view the planning application online, please click here then enter the application number and click Search.

Demolition work starts on Nelson's Palace Theatre

24th June 2010

Demolition work began this week on the Palace Theatre in Leeds Road, which has been bought by Pendle Council and will be replaced by a car park. Some residents felt the building should be saved and restored, but Pendle Council was given government approval to demolish it

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Extension to Edinburgh Festival Theatre to provide extra rehearsal space

23rd June 2010

Planning Application: 10/01478/FUL

Edinburgh City Council has consulted The Theatres Trust on an application to provide a rehearsal room/160-seat performance space, offices and student accommodation on land adjoining the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

The Theatres Trust supported the application. Read the Trust’s response.

To view the planning application online, please click here then enter the application reference and click Search.

Can sports cars make theatres more comfortable?

22nd June 2010

What is the most important thing when you go to the theatre? The acting? The direction? The drama? Or the seats and how comfortable they are? Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Royal Shakespeare Company, which has commissioned an Italian design company to make seats as part of a refurbishment of its theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and speaks with RSC’s Peter Wilson on a BBC Radio 4’s Today show. Note: includes sound.

Source: BBC Radio 4 TODAY - Will Gompertz

Topping out stage for Canterbury's new Marlowe Theatre

22nd June 2010

A topping out ceremony has been held in the latest stage of the £25.6m redevelopment of a Kent theatre. The event marked the ceremonial placing of the top brick on the highest point of the Marlowe Theatre, in Canterbury. The new theatre will boast a 1,200-seat auditorium and be able to host major touring shows when it opens in the autumn of next year.

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Cork Opera House to go dark for three months

22nd June 2010

One of Ireland’s largest theatres, the 1,000-seat Cork Opera House, is to close for three months as part of a cost-cutting survival plan. The theatre’s 31 full-time staff have also been told by the board that pay cuts and redundancies may also be necessary. The announcement that the theatre will go dark from July 4 to September 29 comes almost exactly a year after completion of a €2 million revamp, financed through capital grants from the Department of Arts, Cork City Council and fund-raising.

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DCMS faces 25% budget cut

22nd June 2010

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport could face cuts of 25% over the next four years, it was revealed in Chancellor George Osborne’s first budget today. Final departmental budgets will be set in the spending review, due on October 20. Osborne announced that departmental spending will be reduced by £17 billion more than expected by 2014-15 because, he said, “the structural deficit is worse than we were told”.

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