Best-ever winter bodes well for brilliant summer at Chichester Festival Theatre

Name: Best-ever winter bodes well for brilliant summer at Chichester Festival Theatre
Uploaded: 2024-03-25T18:44:10.000Z
Duration: 334 s
Description: After the best winter season ever in its history in terms of money and audience numbers, Chichester Festival Theatre is now relishing a great response so far to the summer shows ahead.

After the best winter season ever in its history in terms of money and audience numbers, Chichester Festival Theatre is now relishing a great response so far to the summer shows ahead.

By Phil Hewitt

Published 31st Mar 2024, 08:05 BST

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Bookings for the summer festival, which opens with The Other Boleyn Girl on April 19, are 20 per cent up on last year and on the year before – and catching up with 2019, the last season before the pandemic shut everything down.

It’s the first season under the new CFT artistic director Justin Audibert. Chichester Festival Theatre executive director Kathy Bourne is delighted with the way the new era is dawning.