THE Watermill Theatre in Newbury has reached the final shortlist of five venues nominated for the My Theatre Matters! UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre Award.
Nominations for the awards’ creative categories were announced on Thursday, September 25 and can be viewed online at www.uktheatre.org.
Voting is now complete but the winner will not be announced until the day of the annual UK Theatre Awards ceremony in London’s historic Guildhall on Sunday, October 19.
The public voting system included an element of weighting based on the capacity of each theatre.
Of 256 venues that competed, the final shortlist is:
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Newcastle Theatre Royal
The Watermill Theatre
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Wales Millennium Centre
Julian Bird, Chief Executive of UK Theatre, said: “It is has been wonderful to see the votes flooding in for this year’s Most Welcoming Theatre Award. Theatres play vital roles at the heart of our local communities and this award gives audiences the chance to shout about how much they value the work of their local venue.”
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