Belgrade Theatre announcement of the 2021 UK City of Culture result. There was amazing scenes of jubilation as Coventry was awarded the accolade. Belgrade Theatre The Belgrade Theatre is a live performance venue seating 858 and situated in Coventry, England. It was the first civic theatre to be built after the Second World War in Britain and as such was more than a place of entertainment. It joined the new Coventry Cathedral as a symbol of optimism and culture in one of the largest re-development projects then undertaken, to rebuild the city of Coventry, which had been almost totally destroyed by bombing.
John English (theatre director) Highbury Theatre as a reminder of his devotion to the theatre and to the promotion of the arts, be it amateur or professional, in the city of Birmingham. John English (theatre director) John English, OBE, MA (13 January 1911 – 20 December 1998), was a theatre director, actor, writer and entrepreneur in Birmingham, England, and the founder of the Highbury Theatre, the Midlands Arts Centre as well as being one of the founding members of the Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain. John English was born in Dudley, West Midlands, on 13 January 1911. Son of Bertie and Emeline English;