#THEATRE

Peter J Holland 🏳️‍🌈🖤

PeterjHolland

Theatre is in trouble and we're hurtling towards a cliff edge. With redundancies and closures being announced every day we must not let this industry which contributes £10.8 Billion to

Gunnar Cauthery

ahungrycentaur

They aren’t going to save theatre. They’ve got an 80-seat majority for another four years & this pandemic is an expensive business. Theatre doesn’t create Tory voters and, let’s face

Marxist Bernard 🇯🇲 🇮🇳

marcus_bernard

Our theatre industry is run by the elite and caters to the rich, and they wonder why there's no bailout?Maybe we should've built an industry accessible to all and then

Howard Sherman

HESherman

I tweeted about seeing Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in OTHELLO in 1982 and many people have responded by wishing they could have seen it (or had a time

Becky Prestwich

beckyph7

THEATRE (a thread)I find it so hard to articulate why I think theatre matters. Things that feel magical in a theatre can seem wanky or ridiculous or small written down.

Guleraana

g_ting

Holy moly guys. Little old me is running a playwriting course for the bloody national theatreMe? Who spent their childhood being told to be quietMe? A small brown woman who

Sarah Argent

sargent65

Theatre Twitter. I won't be popular for this but I have to tell the truth. Maybe no audience member has contracted Covid but I know of a director, a designer,

Jasminne

jasminnemendez

We need to really talk about how high school drama/theatre departments run by white teachers can & usually are really toxic & harmful to BIPOC students. I'm trying to write

Nick Ahad

NickAhad

Imagine an industry that made billions for the treasury. Imagine an industry that made billions for the wider economy. An industry that literally existed to make us better humans, to

Sarah Argent

sargent65

#NickHytner & #KristinScottThomas. Thank you for your well-intentioned comments about the crisis facing the arts but once again hearing about the West End, ballet, opera and the big theatres makes

Howard Sherman

HESherman

I won't shout, but I feel something needs to be said: I have worked in NYC for 17 years and I hear over and over about "the Broadway community." But

Jared (Not Doctor) Strange (Yet)

NotDrStrangeYet

Finally watching #RatatouilleMusical. There is a lot to take in, as others have pointed out: the lyrics, the racial dynamics of the cast, the homemade aesthetic. For me, it's furthering

LaraPW

LaraVP

THREADI’ve been thinking about this idea of protesting for theatre. I’m not convinced for several reasons (please bear with me) 1) Covid has ruined several businesses from hospitality to travel

Tracey Sinclair

Thriftygal

Ranty thread warning: I recognise that streaming theatre is valuable for many reasons, but I do not love the sense from some corners that it somehow proves regional theatre's work

Adam Lenson

AdamLenson

A digital theatre reminder- When a show has already been filmed then it's 'streaming'. - If a show is being performed live then it's 'live-streaming'. Both are great and have

The Stage

TheStage

Theatre is in urgent need of support and will look very different when it re-emerges from this crisis. For an in-depth special feature, The Stage asked 24 changemakers across the

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