News

Stay up-to-date with key news about theatres and the issues that affect them across the UK, including theatres which are currently on our Theatres at Risk register.

  • Auditorium of Wilton's Music Hall with wooden floors and red curtain
    Theatres at Risk Capacity Building Programme

    Thanks to funding from The Pilgrim Trust and Swire Charitable Trust, this scheme is open for a third year.

    Theatres at Risk Capacity Building Programme
  • World Theatre Day
    World Theatre Day 2021

    On World Theatre Day, Theatres Trust reflects on the importance of theatres and how it has worked to protect them during the pandemic.

    World Theatre Day 2021
  • Theatres Trust Conference speakers
    Join our Board - Chair and Trustee opportunities

    Could you help shape our work to champion the future of theatres in communities everywhere?

    Join our Board - Chair and Trustee opportunities
  • Reduce Reuse Recycle on a note with art materials
    Blog: Introducing the Theatre Green Book

    Theatre Green Book Co-ordinator and Theatres Trust Trustee Paddy Dillon gives some background on the new project.

    Blog: Introducing the Theatre Green Book
  • Eden Court Inverness c Keith Hunter
    Inaugural UK Civic Arts Awards

    Eden Court Highlands has been recognised by a new award celebrating the vital role arts organisations play in society.

    Inaugural UK Civic Arts Awards
  • The auditorium of Venue Cymru.
    Theatres support vaccine effort

    Lockdown closed theatres continue to play a crucial role supporting their communities through the pandemic by opening their spaces as NHS vaccine centres.

    Theatres support vaccine effort
  • Auditorium of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
    Theatre Reopening Fund awards final grants to 40 theatres

    Theatres Trust is delighted to award a further £155,265 of grants to help theatres with costs of Covid-secure reopening.

    Theatre Reopening Fund awards final grants to 40 theatres
  • Bristol Old Vic exterior
    Civic Trust Awards 2021

    We are pleased to see a number of theatres and performance spaces recognised at the Civic Trust Awards, celebrating outstanding design in the built environment

    Civic Trust Awards 2021
  • Exterior of Odeon Covent Garden with signage and frieze.
    Welcome result in former Saville Theatre Public Inquiry

    As a main party in the Inquiry, Theatres Trust is delighted with a decision to dismiss two appeals relating to the Grade II listed building, protecting it for future theatre use.

    Welcome result in former Saville Theatre Public Inquiry
  • Houses of Parliament
    Budget 2021

    Theatres Trust welcomes the additional £408m funding for the arts, the extension of the furlough scheme and a new Community Ownership Fund.

    Budget 2021
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    Thanks to our fundraisers

    From Billy Elliot-inspired stunts to photo books and sponsored walks, Theatres Trust is enormously grateful to the people who have chosen to raise money for us during the current crisis.

    Thanks to our fundraisers
  • Lyric Theatre Belfast, a modern theatre building surrounded by trees
    Grants to help theatres improve environmental sustainability

    Through our partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, we’ve awarded grant to five more theatres and £360,000 in grants will be available over the next three years.

    Grants to help theatres improve environmental sustainability