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News
Archive (M-Z)
This is the archive of news stories from September 1997 to September
2001 from the About British Theatre site. They have not been converted
into the new design format, and so they appear as very basic files.
Apologies for that, but it would have taken far too long to convert
them, time which can be better spent on producing new material.
Please note: these pages will not be maintained, in the sense that
errors will not be corrected. I have sorted all the errors which relate
to this index but 404 and other errors in individual pages will remain.
In short, URLs given within a news page indexed here should be assumed
not to exist!
We started indexing news items on 29th September, 1997. No index
is available for items prior to that date as they were not archived.
Each index entry is dated by year.
A-L Index
Cameron Mackintosh - - - New London shows planned (1999)
Cameron Mackintosh - - - Aquires new venues (1999)
Cameron Mackintosh - - - Will not produce any new musicals, except...
Terrence McNally - - - Muslim group Fatwa (1999)
John Major musical - - - Fooled you! You Idiots!
Manchester - - - Palace and Opera House come off the Web (1997)
Manchester - - - 3m writ for Exchange (2000)
Mayfair Theatre - - - First production for ten years (2001)
Masterclasses - - - Autumn 2001 programme announced
Medea - - - £10 for Medea seats (2001)
Mermaid - - - Agreement nearer
Meyer-Whitworth Award - - - Winner announced (2001)
Millennium Bug - - - More than half UK theatres not ready (1998)
Millennium - - - Sold (2000)
Millennium Dome - - - Extra £47m (2000)
Millennium Dome - - - National Audit Office damns NMEC (2000)
Millennium Dome - - - Closes but the rows rumble on (2001)
Millennium Dome - - - Legacy partner drops out (2001)
Millennium Dome - - - Most popular visitor attraction (2001)
Millenium Festival Fund - - - Launch (1998)
Helen Mirren - - - Return to London stage (1998)
The Mousetrap - - - Happy Birthday!(1997)
Musicians Union - - - BBS dropped (2000)
National Arts Day - - - Keep your promise, Smith told (1999)
National Arts Day - - - MP meets Smith (2000)
National Arts Day - - - It's today! (2001)
National Student Drama Festival - - - opens on 4th April (2001)
National Theatre - - - Cottesloe going dark (1998)
National Theatre - - - Major dispute with BECTU (1998)
National Theatre - - - Possible Job Losses (1998)
National Theatre - - - Schools' tour (1998)
National Theatre - - - Pay row (1998)
National Theatre - - - Pay row settled (1999)
National Theatre - - - "Greater commitment to regional theatre" (2000)
National Theatre - - - Merchant for BBC2 (2000)
National Theatre - - - Ensemble contracts not to be renewed (2000)
National Theatre - - - More grief for the RNT Ensemble (2000)
National Theatre - - - Architect dies (2001)
National Theatre - - - Most popular plays of the last 25 years (2001)
National Theatre - - - Nunn will definitely go (2001)
National Theatre - - - Devolution? (2001)
National Theatre - - - No Cherry Orchard for Broadway (2001)
National Theatre - - - RUG CEO joins board (2001)
National Theatre - - - Who will replace Nunn? (2001)
National Theatre - - - Stafford-Clark throws his hat in to the ring (2001)
National Theatre - - - We won't advertise (2001)
National Youth Music Theatre - - - New sponsors sought (1999)
Liam Neeson - - - Home town row (2000)
NESTA - - - Chairman appointed (1998)
NESTA - - - Radical changes proposed (1998)
New Audiences Scheme - - - Announced (1998)
Newcastle-under-Lyme - - - Stoke to cut New Vic(2000)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Royal and Tyne Theatre merger considered (1997)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Consultants called in (1997)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Playhouse bans smoking (1998)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Bogdanov attacks RSC's visits (1998)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Consultants report on Theatre Royal (1998)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - - - Aughton goes (1998)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne- - - New Playhouse ensemble (1998)
New Playwrights Trust - - - Spotlight for writers (1998)
New Producer Bursary Scheme - - - Applications invitred (2001)
New Tyne Theatre - - - Watkins liable for £5000 fine (1998)
New Tyne Theatre - - - For sale? (1998)
New Writing - - - "The golden age of new writing is passing" (1999)
New Year's Honours List 2000 - - - Theatre people honoured
Derek Nimmo - - - Dies (1999)
Northampton - - - Theatre merger on the cards (1997)
Northampton - - - £1m for merger (1999)
Northern Arts - - - No cuts for '98 (1998)
Northern Ireland - - - ACNI under attack (2000)
Northumberland Theatre Company - - - Grant cut (1998)
North West Arts - - - Five theatres may close (1998)
Norwich Theatre Royal - - - Audiences plunge (1999)
Norwich Theatre Royal - - - Profitable year (1999)
Norwich Theatre Royal - - - On the mend? (2000)
Trevor Nunn - - - Will not seek second term (2000)
Joseph O'Conor - - - Dies (2001)
Oklahoma! - - - Not for America (1999)
Mike Okrent - - - Dies in New York (1999)
Old Vic - - - Redundancies by Christmas (1997)
Old Vic - - - Another bidder (1997)
Old Vic - - - Closes (1998)
Old Vic - - - Saved (1998)
Old Vic - - - Close to cash target (2000)
Old Vic - - - Spacey looks for angels (2000)
Oliver - - - Cast (1997)
Olivier Bursaries 2001 - - - Details announced
Olivier Awards - - - Be a judge (2000)
Olivier Awards - - - Nominations to be announced this week (2001)
Olivier Awards - - - Judge applications invited (2001)
Online ticketing - - - Row at TMA conference (1999)
Online ticketing - - - More online booking problems (1999)
Opera - - - Get rid of the elitist image call (1997)
Orange Tree Theatre - - - To go dark in Autumn (1999)
Out of Joint - - - Prudential award (1997)
Bill Owen - - - Statue in Holmfirth (2000)
Oxford - - - Plahouse to be core-funded (2000)
Pay - - - BECTU/SOLT reach agreement (1997)
Pay - - - What actors earned in '98 (1999)
Pearson Playwright's Scheme - - - Bursary winner (2000)
Jimmy Perry - - - Turns producer (1997)
Peter Pan - - - Star cast at National (1997)
Phoenix, Leicester - - - Jobs to go? (2000)
Polka Children's Theatre - - - Grant cut blow (1999)
Politics - - - Arts a tool of government policy, claim (1999)
Nyree Dawn Porter - - - Obituary (2001)
Queen's, Hornchurch - - - Gets LAB core funding (2000)
QUEST - - - Attack by Robinson (1999)
Radio 4 - - - Opening nights series (2001)
Ragtime- - - West End date (1998)
Mark Ravenhill - - - Claims "angry young men" were homophobic (1999)
Mark Ravenhill - - - Working on a musical (2000)
Really Useful Group - - - To produce own programmes (2000)
Really Useful Group - - - In negotional with China (2001)
Redgrave Family - - - Sell family archives (2000)
Redgrave Theatre, Farnham - - - To be auctioned (1998)
Regional Arts Boards - - - More Lottery funding power (1997)
Regional Arts Boards - - - "Meddling and interference" claim (1997)
Regional Arts Boards - - - Rethink puts companies at risk (1998)
Regional Arts Boards - - - 1999 funding plans from NW and SE Arts (1999)
Regional Arts Boards - - - Funding: average 3% rise (2000)
Regional Theatre - - - Most producing theatres trading insolvently (2000)
Rent - - - Opening (1997)
Sir Ralph Richardson - - - Possessions to be auctioned (2001)
Sir Ralph Richardson - - - Auction raises over £700,000
Richmond Theatre - - - New education department (2000)
Robert Robinson - - - Dies (2001)
Robinson Report - - - Government sits on the fence (2000)
Willie Ross - - - Dies (2000)
Royal Court - - - Writers' festival opens (1997)
Royal Court - - - No Jerwood interference (1998)
Royal Court - - - Opening postponed again (2000)
Royal Court - - - Home at last (2000)
Royal Court - - - Actors give lifts a lift
Royal Exchange - - - Re-opening date announced (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Further financial difficulty (1997)
Royal Opera House - - - Getting the bailiffs in (1997)
Royal Opera House - - - I can
save the House, Allen claims (1997)
Royal Opera House - - - New chairman appointed (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Staff join with ENO for rally (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Stars support Gala (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Allen
no confidence vote (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Allen forced out (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - More trouble (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - New artistic director (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - First report published (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Double grant needed (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Southgate to quit? (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - FSA grant (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Close and re-open, says Eyre (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Fly tower problems (1998)
Royal Opera House- - - Sadler's Wells to sue? (1998)
Royal Opera House- - - Redundancies row (1998)
Royal Opera House- - - Executive director appointed (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Yet more problems! (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Compensation deal with Sadler's Wells (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Resignations (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Attacked by MP (1998)
Royal Opera House - - - Artistic director appointment stalled (1999)
Royal Opera House - - - Refit delay (1999)
Royal Opera House - - - Box office success (1999)
Royal Opera House - - - Broadcast deals with BBC (1999)
Royal Opera House - - - Accessibility worse, claim (2000)
Royal Opera House - - - Twelfth performance cancelled (2000)
Royal Opera House - - - Threat in spite of ticket U-turn (2000)
Royal Opera House - - - Executive Director Appointed (2001)
Royal Opera - - - To be privatised? (1998)
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama - - - Dench takes over (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - £1.6m in the red (1997)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Access sponsorship continues (1997)
Royal Shakespeare Company- - - Funding delay for three years (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Closed by floods (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Lottery bid rejected (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Anger over pay (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company- - - New actors' pay deal (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Newcastle season success (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - £250,000 loss (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - New talks with ACE (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Financially safe (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Not on stabilisation funding (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Richard III financial success (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - New Education Director (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Saved by the sponsor (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Looking for new sponsor (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Weston resigns (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Best year for a decade (1999)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Chairman to retire (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Still no MD (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Redundancy threat (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - New attempt to find MD (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Lottery boost (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - MD appointed (2000)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Michigan made This England possible (2001)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Possible strike (2001)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Strike date set (2001)
Royal Shakespeare Company - - - Strike averted (2001)
Royal Shakespeare Theatre - - - To be replaced? (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Theatre - - - Not to be demolished (1998)
Royal Shakespeare Theatre - - - £50m promised (1999)
Sadler's Wells - - - To go dark for a month (1999)
Sadler's Wells - - - New grants (1999)
Sadler's Wells - - - Going bust, claims The Mirror
Sainsbury's - - - Sainsbury's Checkout Theatre to fund three new plays (2000)
Saturday Night Fever - - - Record advance booking (1997)
Saturday Night Fever - - - Opening date (1997)
Scotland - - - Call for Scottish Ministry of Culture (1998)
Scotland - - - Extra £500,000 (1998)
Scotland - - - No Scottish National Theatre (1998)
Scotland - - - Scotland's declining panto audience (1999)
Scotland - - - U-turn on Scottish National Theatre (1999)
Scotland - - - Creative Scotland Awards (2000)
Scotland - - - New classic theatre for the Borders (2000)
Scotland - - - Scottish National Theatre gets closer (2000)
Scotland - - - Extra cash (2000)
Scotland - - - Scottish theatre endangered by extra money for England (2001)
Scottish Arts Council- - - Standstill budget (1998)
Scottish Arts Council - - - Stabilisation funding (1998)
Scottish Arts Council - - - Extra funding for theatre (1998)
Scottish Arts Council - - - Three year funding (1999)
Scottish Arts Council - - - First Scotland On-Stage grants (1999)
Scottish Arts Council - - - More for Scotland On-Stage (1999)
Scottish Arts Council - - - Now it's SAC's turn! (2000)
Scottish Arts Council - - - To be more responsive (2000)
Scottish Ballet - - - New Directors Appointed (1997)
Scottish Ballet - - - Appoint or lose funding (1999)
Scottish Opera - - - SAC demands board's resignation (1999)
Scottish Opera - - - Saved from insolvency (1999)
Sir Harry Secombe - - - Obituary (2001)
Shadow Arts Council - - - Launch (1999)
Shadow Arts Council - - - Launches election manifesto
Peter Shaffer - - - Knighted (2001)
Shakespeare - - - Soaps are the new Shakespeare
Shakespeare - - - Earliest portrait? (2001)
Shakespeare's Globe - - - Rylance to stay another three years (2000)
Shaw, George Bernard - - - Pygmalion (1997)
Shaw Theatre - - - Re-opens (2001)
Sheffield - - - Stabilisation funding (2000)
Shopping and Fucking - - - National tour planned (1997)
Shopping and Fucking - - - West End Opening (1998)
Shopping and Fucking - - - Swansea ban bid (1998)
Shopping and Fucking - - - Amsterdam success (1998)
Show Boat - - - Coming to the West End (1997)
Joan Sims - - - Dies, aged 71 (2001)
The Slow Drag - - - Closing (1998)
Chris Smith - - - Culture Sec. in reshuffle rumour (1997)
Soapstars - - - Programme an insult to actors, says Equity (2001)
Society of London Theatre - - - New president (1999)
Society of London Theatre - - - Pensions deal for West End (2000)
Society of London Theatre - - - Kids' Week is Achievement of the Year (2000)
Society of London Theatre - - - New CEO (2001)
South Bank Centre - - - Cash Cuts (1997)
Southern Arts - - - 1999 funding plans (1999)
South West Arts - - - Funding shock (1999)
Spending - - - UK lags behind (1998)
Stephen Spielberg - - - Awarded KBE
The Spotlight - - - New service (2001)
The Stage - - - Going online (1997)
The Stage - - - Web site launched (1998)
Statistics - - - New theatre-going figures (1997)
Stephen Joseph Theatre - - - Financial future secured (1998)
Stephen Joseph Theatre - - - To lose licence exemption? (1999)
Stockport - - - Plaza saved (2000)
Stoll Moss Theatres - - - Management buy-out? (1999)
Stoll Moss Theatres - - - Bidders gather (1999)
Stoll Moss Theatres - - - Only two bidders left in running (2000)
Stratford Circus - - - To open in June (2001)
Stratford-upon-Avon - - - Shakespeare birthplace reopens (2000)
Sunderland Empire - - - Possible SFX/Apollo takeover (1999)
Sunderland Empire - - - Apollo to take over (2000)
Sweet Charity - - - National tour postponed (1999)
Tabard Theatre - - - To become producing house (1999)
Tara Arts - - - Grant (1997)
Television - - - New digital drama channel (2000)
Tess - - - At least £14,000 owed to musicians (2000)
John Thaw - - - Award BAFTA Fellowship (2001)
Theatre 2001 - - - Conference details
Theatre Book Prize - - - Winner is de Jongh (2001)
Theatre Book Prize 2001 - - - Suzman to be judge
Theatre Museum - - - To celebrate great actors of the 20th century (2001)
David Thewlis - - - Writing satirical novel (2000)
Think Tank - - - Charles opens new arts and economy think tank (1997)
Theatre 2001 - - - Report published (2001)
Theatre Archipelago - - - Ceases trading (2000)
Theatr Clwyd - - - Increased grant (1998)
Theatre Magazine- - - In liquidation (1998)
Theatre Royal, Stratford East - - - Going dark (1997)
Theatres Trust - - - "The headcount has taken over from quality" (1999)
Theatres Trust - - - To scrutinise Lottery grants (1999)
Thorndike, Leatherhead - - - Closes again (1997)
Thorndike, Leatherhead - - - Gets listed status (1999)
Thorndike, Leatherhead - - - The end of the road? (2000)
Thorndike, Leatherhead - - - Curtains (2000)
TMA - - - TMA refuses to respond to Equity demand (1997)
TMA - - - New figures give mixed message for regional theatre (1997)
TMA - - - National pay deals under threat (1997)
TMA - - - Scottish theatres not to rejoin? (1998)
TMA - - - Audiences down, prices up (1998)
Tony Awards - - - 2001 nominations of British interest
Touring Theatre - - - Bleak annual review from ITC (1997)
Touring Theatre - - - Actors can't afford to tour (1999)
Training - - - New Performing Arts qualification from Guildford (1999)
Trestle Theatre Company - - - New base
Tristan Bates Theatre - - - To be part-time producing house (1999)
Tristan Bates Theatre - - - Closes (2000)
Tron, Glasgow - - - Closes for redevelopment (1998)
Tron, Glasgow - - - To become receiving house? (1999)
Tron, Glasgow - - - Financial trouble (2000)
Tron, Glasgow - - - Council to the rescue (2001)
UK Theatre - - - Responds to attacks on America (2001)
UK Theatre Web - - - Is six years old (2001)
Unicorn Children's Theatre - - - Moves to Pleasance (1999)
Unicorn Children's Theatre - - - New theatre plan (2000)
Usenet - - - New British theatre newsgroup (1999)
The Vagina Monologues - - - Title too rude for the Tube
VAT - - - VAT reduction call (1997)
VAT - - - Axe VAT on theatre tickets, government told(2000)
Vaudeville Theatre - - - Sold (2001)
Vivian Ellis Prize - - - 1997 Winner (1997)
Vivian Ellis Prize - - - Judges attacked (2000)
Vivian Ellis Prize - - - Change of direction (2000)
Waiting for Godot - - - Money back if you don't like it, audiences told (1998)
Wales Millennium Centre - - - CEO leaves (2001)
Harriet Walter - - - University honour (2001)
Warriors - - - More nominations (2000)
Watermill Theatre, Newbury- - - Financial crisis (1998)
Joseph Weinberger - - - Buys Warner/Chappell catalogue (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - Snubs ACW (1998)
Welsh Theatre - - - New lobbying body (1998)
Welsh Theatre - - - High growth sector (1998)
Welsh Theatre - - - TMA attacks ACW plans (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - Hijinx saved but row rumbles on (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - "Farcical" new writing plan (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - YPT reorganisation (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - National Assembly inquiry (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - New South Wales company proposed (1999)
Welsh Theatre - - - Legal threat to ACW (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - New writing funding cut by £90,000 (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - ITC provides legal aid (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - No new TIE deal till 2002? (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - Middlehurst resigns (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - Replacement for Middlehurst (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - £1.71% increase in arts budget (2000)
Welsh Theatre - - - No replacement yet for Weston (2001)
Welsh Theatre - - - In jeopardy, says Equity (2001)
Welsh Theatre - - - Creu Cymru launched (2001)
Westcliff-on-Sea - - - New rep at Palace (1999)
West End - - - West End ticket sales up (1997)
West End - - - Shows expected next year (1997)
West End - - - Shows closing this week (11/30/97)
West End - - - Figures for 1997 (1998)
West End - - - Sunday opening? (1999)
West End - - - Another theatre up for sale (1999)
West End - - - Back-stage staff morale at all-time low (2000)
West End - - - Criterion sold (2000)
West End - - - Bullying rife, says BECTU (2000)
West End - - - Take a Date or Bring a Mate(2001)
West End - - - One in three theatres are a fire risk
West End - - - Attendances up (2001)
West Midlands Arts - - - Capital grants cash crisis (1999)
Westminster - - - Arts funding shock (1999)
Westminster Theatre - - - To be demolished (1998)
West Yorkshire Playhouse - - - Grant (1997)
West Yorkshire Playhouse - - - Stabilisation grant (1997)
West Yorkshire Playhouse - - - New producing company (1998)
West Yorkshire Playhouse - - - New performance space (1999)
Wimbledon - - - Wimbledon Theatre refurbishment (1997)
Winchester - - - Theatre Royal twice lucky (1998)
Wolsey, Ipswich - - - £107,000 loss (1998)
Wolsey, Ispwich - - - CEO sacked (1999)
World Cup - - - How it will affect theatre (1998)
Worcester - - - Swan saved (1999)
World Theatre Day - - - 2001
Worthing - - - Connaught productions to be cut (1999)
Wrexham - - - New Theatre (2001)
Writers - - - Two writers' organisations cut (2001)
Writers in Chains - - - Conference at WYP (2001)
Young Directors Bursaries - - - 1999 winners (1999)
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre - - - Possible new home (1998)
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre - - - Recurrent funding status (2000)
Young Vic - - - Free tickets (2001)
Young Vic - - - Rebuild planned
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