Railway Children at Waterloo’s redundant Eurostar station
12th March 2010
A production of The Railway Children featuring a real steam locomotive is to be staged at Waterloo’s disused international terminal. The redundant Eurostar platforms will be turned into a theatre with the audience seated on two sides of the steam engine. A similar production of the play – based on the book by E Nesbit – was staged at the National Railway Museum in York two years ago.
Source:LondonSE1
Theatre watchdog joins Futurist fight
12th March 2010
Scarborough Evening News reports on The Theatres Trust’s letter to Scarborough Borough Council asking for it to be consulted on the future of the Futurist.
Anger at Hackney Empire plans
12th March 2010
Plans to sell a building used and owned by the Hackney Empire in order to pay back its spiralling deficit were greeted with anger by local residents at a stormy public meeting at the theatre on the 11 March 2010.
Northcott must start from scratch - administrator
11th March 2010
Exeter Northcott theatre needs to start again “with a completely clean slate”, according to the administrator who is now in charge of the venue and is calling for the company that ran the theatre to be replaced with an entirely new body. Ian Walker from administrator Begbies Traynor was appointed last month after it emerged that the regional producing venue was trading with a significant deficit. At the time, its board claimed it had “no choice” but to place the theatre into administration, despite receiving advice against the move from Arts Council England.
Council go-ahead brings hope for Hackney Empire meeting tonight
11th March 2010
The Hackney Empire has been granted a new ray of hope ahead of the public meeting into the theatre’s future tonight March 11. Hackney Council’s planning sub committee last night gave the thumbs up to proposals to redevelop the theatre’s Sixties office block in Wilton Way, Hackney Central, into a seven-storey complex of 25 flats and houses with a community space and café for the theatre.
£4.5m deal agreed to save Hackney Empire
11th March 2010
A property deal that will save the Hackney Empire has been given the go-ahead. The historic theatre was forced to close last month because of a financial crisis. But now local councillors have backed a building development that should safeguard its future. Hackney council planning committee has given permission for a project to turn a Sixties office block next to the venue into 25 flats.
Exeter Northcott goes into administration
26th February 2010
Exeter Northcott, one of the few remaining producing theatres in the south-west of England, has gone into administration, it was revealed today, 26 Feb. The trustees of the theatre took the decision at an emergency board meeting late yesterday evening. They claim that they were given financial information that showed the venue to be insolvent.
Edinburgh’s revamped Usher Hall opens
26th February 2010
Edinburgh’s Usher Hall has increased its capacity to 2,900 with the opening this week of a new wing, which is part of its £35 million refurbishment. Only the landscaping remains to complete the project to unite the adjacent Royal Lyceum and Traverse theatres into an arts quarter.
Finance probe into man who wrecked Derby Hippodrome
24th February 2010
A probe into the finances of the owner of the historic Hippodrome is being carried out before he is sentenced for damaging it. Christopher Anthony yesterday pleaded guilty at Derby Crown Court to ordering work to be carried out to the former theatre. But prosecutors on behalf of Derby City Council accepted that the destruction, which happened on March 28, 2008, had not been caused deliberately by Anthony and was instead a “botched job”.
Derby Hippodrome owner pleads guilty to demolishing roof
23rd February 2010
The owner of Derby’s Hippodrome theatre has pleaded guilty to demolishing part of its roof during work on the Grade II-listed building two years ago. The admission was made at Derby Crown Court today as Derby City Council accused London developer Christopher Anthony of carrying out unauthorised work to the building in Green Lane which led to the collapse of its flat roof.
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