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Cash-strapped: how theatres are dealing with the cost-of-living crisis

Samantha Power and Katherine Pearce in rehearsals for No Pay? No Way! at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Photo: Ella Mayamothi
Samantha Power and Katherine Pearce in rehearsals for No Pay? No Way! at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Photo: Ella Mayamothi
Theatre leaders tell Lyn Gardner about shaping their programmes for challenging times, their responsibilities towards artists and ticket buyers and how they are faring after a tough winter

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