Tag Archives: Warehouse

What’s in a name? For Croydon Council, about £3m

According to PIGGY ASHCROFT, our council wants to make a crisis out of a drama, with designs on the Warehouse Theatre‘s name and hard-won reputation as well as its multi-million pound endowment from developers Croydon Council wants to go into … Continue reading

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Warehouse Theatre: Croydon Council does the dirty deed

We reproduce here some of the key pages from the deed, drawn up in March this year, which Croydon Council has presented to developers Stanhope, demonstrating the greedy grab for the £3 million grant that had been promised to provide … Continue reading

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Robeson sings a lament for the Warehouse Theatre

BELLA BARTOCK’s mascara is running, as she sheds a tear not just for the powerful production of Call Mr Robeson, but for the closure of Croydon’s Warehouse Theatre The Warehouse Theatre, another essential strand of Croydon’s cultural fabric, closes this … Continue reading

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