£1.57 billion investment to protect Britain’s world-class cultural, arts and heritage institutions · Cultural and heritage organisations to be protected with £1.57 billion sup...

Zoe Curnow, artistic director of the Minack, Cornwall, 24-06-2020 We were due to start on 31st March. We had the loveliest weather over Easter, so we would have had the most cracki...

Charlotte St Martin, President of the Broadway League, 26-06-2020 We’ve been calling the last decade the golden age of Broadway. We’ve continued to have hit shows and high atte...

On the weekend of 14th March following the closure of theatre on Broadway [12-03] it became clear that something overwhelming was about to happen to British theatre. I wrote an art...

Danny Moar, director Theatre Royal Bath, 13-05-2020 What strikes me, talking to other theatre managers and other producers, is that everyone is in the same boat. We don’t know wh...

Neil McPherson, artistic director, Finborough Theatre, 27-05-2020 It was very bad just before the lockdown, after that in a way it got a lot easier. At least then we had some certa...

Indhu Rubsingham, artistic director of the Kiln, London 29-04-2020 I think a lot of us were planning and hoping to reopen in the autumn – and the thing that has been coming out t...

Anthony Biggs, artistic director of the Playground Theatre, London W12 15-04-2020 The Playground opened in 2017 and when I joined the theatre from Jermyn Street that summer the Gre...

Sheila Atim, actress, 13-05-2020 They sent me the script for The Understudy. I had a read. It was a really fun piece, in terms of tone exactly the kind of thing we need right now. ...