In a fairly bold and innovative gesture, the Arts Council England announced the results of its Pilot scheme which aims to offer over 600,000 free Theatre Tickets to kids and young adults (under the age of 26) over the next 2 years.

The list published yesterday included some of London’s top Theatres so this isn’t a case of a group of dying theatres all getting together to “bang out” seats that otherwise would never have been filled anyway.

The list of London Theatres participating in this scheme include the likes of the Almeida Theatre, BAC, Bush Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, the Greenwich Theatre, the Hampstead Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Court Theatre, The Soho Theatre, Tricycle Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic. Between them they received over £300,000 worth of funding to make this scheme possible and between them represented the largest group scheme in the overall plan.

Tags: London Theatre News

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