Shakespeare’s Globe among venues to get slice of Culture Recovery Fund

Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sage Gateshead and the company behind the Lady Boys of Bangkok are among the latest recipients of emergency government arts funding.

The replica Elizabethan theatre in London will receive almost £3m from the £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund.

The Birmingham Hippodrome, London’s Old Vic theatre and the English National Ballet will all get the maximum £3m.

Gandey Productions, which stages the Chinese State Circus and the Lady Boys of Bangkok, will get more than £1m.

The Sage concert hall will receive £1.8m. Overall, 35 organisations and venues across England will receive up to £3m each in the latest round of grants, which is worth £75m in total. More than 70% is going go to venues and organisations outside London.

‘Vital funding’

Other recipients include the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Norwich Theatre, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Transport Museum and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Also on the list are the Fabric nightclub in London and two equipment companies – Lancashire-based Lights Control Rigging, which has helped the likes of Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora perform, and Merseyside’s Adlib Audio.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the “vital funding” would secure the recipients’ futures and “protect jobs right away”.