Month: June 2020

West End Theatres can reopen – but no live shows

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UK Prime minister Boris Johnson announced today (Tuesday 23 June 2020) that theatres in England will soon be able to re-open, albeit with conditions in place (Wales, Scotland and N Ireland set their own timescales). Whilst West End theatre owners and producers await definitive guidance, it still appears unlikely that the West End will restart …

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Lloyd Webber tests plan to re-open theatres

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Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced a planned test-run to reopen the London Palladium in July, inspired by a production of The Phantom of the Opera in South Korea which has remained open despite the Coronavirus pandemic. Lloyd Webber told BBC Radio 4 that “the local producers have done extraordinary work there”, and that the Phantom production has …

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