{"id":3957,"date":"2023-03-17T05:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/oldham-coliseum-set-to-close-doors-for-good\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T05:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:20:25","slug":"oldham-coliseum-set-to-close-doors-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/oldham-coliseum-set-to-close-doors-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldham Coliseum set to close doors for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Oldham Coliseum Theatre is set to close on March 31 after losing funding from Arts Council England\u2019s National Portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The 135-year-old venue will be cut from ACE\u2019s National Portfolio from April 1 and since the news in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/11\/07\/english-national-opera-to-relocate-after-funding-is-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November<\/a> last year, the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership Team had been trying desperately to find a solution.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>National Portfolio funding equated to a third of the Coliseum\u2019s income and its loss also affected the venue\u2019s ability to apply for alternate funding.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A statement from Oldham Coliseum said: \u201cThe financial situation therefore is not sustainable for the current continuation of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All events from 26 March onwards have been cancelled and ticket-holders have been refunded for the affected performances. Management will now move into a redundancy period and said that \u201cstaff remain our priority\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement continued: \u201cThe Coliseum is not the historic building so many have come to adore, it is the company that runs it and the people who fill its halls with memories. In recent weeks we have also lost a beloved friend and colleague, general manager and former head of production Lesley Chenery. Her passing will now forever be entwined in memory with the closure of the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the theatre\u2019s closure is deeply upsetting for our audiences and participants, not least because of the joyful memories that hundreds of thousands of people from across the North West have of visiting the Coliseum to get involved in projects or to experience our home-produced plays, musicals and award-winning pantomimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/03\/17\/oldham-coliseum-set-to-close-doors-for-good\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Oldham Coliseum Theatre is set to close on March 31 after losing funding from Arts Council England\u2019s National Portfolio. The 135-year-old venue will be cut from ACE\u2019s National Portfolio from April 1 and since the news in November last year, the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership Team had been trying desperately to find &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,145,4245,4246,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-council-england","category-funding","category-national-portfolio","category-oldham-coliseum","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}