Barbara Matthews, the Arts Council England's director of theatre, cites Chichester Festival Theatre in West Sussex as one example of a venue that has made the most of its resources.
But when I awoke, to see the puppet von Trapp children gathered on puppet Maria's puppet bed, I thought back to what the theatre's managing director had said, backstage, in amongst the delicately carved and painted marionettes.
Paul Iles, who died in 2011, was Associate Director at Richmond's Georgian Theatre Royal for more than 10 years.
The idea for the project came from the theatre's artistic director Tom Morris.
Willem Dafoe and Russian dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov will appear in avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson's new production of the play The Old Woman.
The Bolshoi ballet confirmed the staffing changes, saying "The theatre's general director Anatoly Iksanov appointed Yan Godovsky to the position of the ballet troupe director yesterday, after Yanin filed for voluntary leave".
The front row of the Donmar is the scene of another bizarre interruption, as the theatre's former artistic director Michael Grandage recalls.
Sir Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, said Griffiths's unexpected death would devastate his "army of friends".
Artistic director Jonathan Church says part of the theatre's success is a direct result of support from the Arts Council and the local authorities a decade ago.
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Chaired by Morley's widow Ruth Leon, this year's panel included theatre critic Mark Shenton, director Braham Murray and the actor and writer Isla Blair, who was on last year's shortlist for A Tiger's Wedding.
Sheffield's oldest theatre is to get a new artistic director who has previously worked on Broadway and the West End.
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Boyle studied English and drama at university, before working at the RSC and at London's innovative Royal Court Theatre, where he was deputy director in the 1980s.
The Australian director's new film will be shown on 15 May at the Grand Theatre Lumiere of the Palais des Festivals.
Its star and director will be honoured on 26 January at the Californian city's historic Arlington Theatre.
Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry will direct the West End production next February at London's Gielgud theatre.
Josie Rourke, artistic director at the Bush theatre in west London since 2007, will take over Grandage's role at the Donmar in the new year.
Russia's Bolshoi Theatre has appointed a former prima ballerina as a temporary replacement for its artistic director who is recovering from an acid attack.
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