How will our amateur companies cope when their main venue, Hanley's Mitchell Memorial Theatre, closes for refurbishment, asks Alan Cookman?
SOMETIME in 2009, Hanley's 50-year-old Mitchell Memorial Theatre will, in stage parlance, "go dark".
Quite when the lights will dim, and for how long, remains...
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