Coronavirus: PM sets out further England lockdown easing - as it happened - BBC News
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There was some welcome news for the arts sector in Boris Johnson's announcement earlier: indoor performances with socially distanced audiences can take place in England from the start of August.

In the same way that sports fans are going to be allowed in stadiums for a small number of matches to see how it goes, there will also be pilots of theatre shows and concerts with socially distanced audiences.

The findings would feed into final guidance for venues in the run-up to them reopening, the PM said.

However, with social distancing in place, many venues warn it's not financially viable to open. Theatre budgets tend to be based on a breakeven of around 70% capacity, and so with much less capacity the producer cannot afford to put the show on.

Jon Morgan, the head of Theatres Trust welcomed the news as "a step in the right direction" - but said "for most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30-40% audience required under social distancing".

He said they needed to progress to theatres being allowed to open fully "with the appropriate safety measures", adding: "Without this most theatres cannot reopen viably and we need the go-ahead for Christmas shows, on which the survival of many theatres depends, in the next few weeks at the very latest."

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