News: Spring 2 2018-19

A number of the UK's most prominent theatres have been forced to make cuts to jobs and other outlay in recent months due to funding cuts and what they have termed ‘challenging’ financial circumstances.

While redundancies were announced at the RSC in the latter part of 2018 due to a cut in the theatre's Arts Council funding, and Shakespeare's Globe has reported plans to reduce its workforce by up to 14% (around 40 employees) as well as closing its current exhibition space and re purposing it for commercial hire, the Royal Court Theatre in London has also now revealed that it will reduce its core in-house programming by 25-30%, to six new shows a year in each of its two spaces – the minimum expected of the theatre in order to fulfil its funding agreement with Arts Council England.