Portraits of cast members for the 'Dear Evan Hansen' musical look on to empty tables outside the Noel Coward Theatre on St. Martin's Lane in the heart of the capital's West End Theatreland, still closed to audiences during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th September 2020, in London, Westminster, England. Despite the government's £1.15bn financial rescue package for the Arts industry and cultural organisations in England , made up of £880m in grants and £270m of repayable loans, London's theatre industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, being closed since the March lockdown closures which has affected 137,250 Arts industry jobs, worth £21.2bn in direct turnover.
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