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The famous venue welcomed patrons back after being closed for 429 days due to the pandemic.

The boss of Shakespeare’s Globe hopes the theatre’s reopening can provide “cultural nourishment”. The London venue welcomed back patrons on Wednesday after being closed for 429 days due to the pandemic. It reopened for a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a socially distanced audience reduced to 470 from the usual 1600. Capacity will gradually increase as health guidelines evolve. Shakespeare’s Globe theatre has reopened its doors after being closed for more than a year (John Walton/PA) The Globe’s chief executive, Neil Constable, told of his delight at fans being inv...

The venue has an exciting few months ahead

© David Samuel, User:Hellodavey1902 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) The National Theatre has said it "remains committed to resuming performances as soon as possible" with social distancing, after Monday's roadmap announcement. The venue was quick to highlight that "socially distanced performances are not sustainable in the medium term for the NT", and that they are also "impossible for many theatres up and down the country." The Thameside venue added that it was dedicated "to employ members of our freelance community and to welcome back audiences who have always s...

Shakespeare's Globe An assortment of open-air venues and companies as well as think tank "Out to Perform" have penned a letter asking the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden for permission to open with social distancing 'at the earliest opportunity'. Hoping to 'spearhead the UK's post-lockdown cultural revival', the coalition states that open-air productions with necessary precautions should be permitted as soon as Spring, "due to the inherently Covid-safer environment of the rapid dispersal of aerosols outside". The letter highlights how over half a million people safely watched outdoor shows ...