‘West End productions cannot survive under social distancing’ warn theatres June 15, 2021 The four-week delay to easing lockdown restrictions will have “serious implications” for many theatres, with large-scale commercial productions at most serious risk, the industry has warned. On Monday evening the government postponed plans to fully re-open society on 21 June amid a sharp rise in cases of the more transmissible Delta variant, which was first [...]
‘Arrest us’: Lloyd-Webber vows to reopen theatres on 21 June regardless of restrictions rules June 9, 2021 Andrew Lloyd-Webber has vowed to reopen his London shows later this month, regardless of whether the government goes ahead with so-called ‘freedom day’. The theatre entrepreneur has had he is willing to be arrested if authorities try to intervene in his plans to re-open. “We are going to open, come hell or high water,” Lloyd-Webber [...]