Would you 'approve' of theatres being open on Christmas Day?

No. Prefer them to be shut. Otherwise people have to work to run them and it is not essential like nurses, police etc

No!

Definitely not. Everybody deserves at least one day off to spend with their family (as long as we are not in another lockdown!!) With the new Omicron variant, I would prefer all theatres and venues closed for the forseeable futuure anyway.

Theatres and the like are unlikely to ever open on Christmas Day as there's no public transport.

But there are lots of places that do open e.g. restaurants, pubs, hotels, Chinatown, etc.

Gosh, no. Nowhere really apart from the emergency services poor things.

No.
A lot of theatres put extra performances on anyway over Christmas time so I don’t see any need for it. Much as I love going to the theatre I certainly wouldn’t entertain the idea on Christmas Day.

I doubt many people would want to go, would they?

This Christmas coping with Covid ect. is quite different from the norm.
As Riverwalk points out other places open.
I wondered if it would be helpful to those people who spend Christmas Day on their own. Locked in with the TV spouting all that guff about family and friends being at the centr of Christmas 'spirit'.
Not everyone can go for a walk.

No, there are so many people involved in any performance who would have to work. I’d be happy for them to be shut Boxing Day too so staff could have a decent break.

No, Christmas day should remain a day when people can be with friends and family. Many industries where people do have to work (utilities, emwegency services) often arrange shifts so that everyone gets half a day at home. DD used to work in just such an industry and that is what they did.

It should be a day that is ;different', ideally so should Boxing day.

WHAT? Er, let's think...
NO.

I would neither approve nor disapprove. I can imagine a small, family-run theatre deciding among themselves that they wanted to earn a little more and that there was enough support from local people….. why not is what I’d be thinking. It’s not harming anyone else.

Not that I would go to a theatre on Xmas day but that’s a separate issue.

Absolutely not. As has been said I think Boxing day should also be closed.

Also supermarkets, why do we need to shop the day after Christmas, think most people can find some turkey or other leftovers to eat that day. If Aldi can do it for their staff (probably Lidl too) both very successful companies, why not Sainsbury, Tesco and the like. Doubt higher management work over the holiday. I wrote to Sainsbury last year on the subject, but no response.

While I am the bandwagon am also not keen on Sunday opening, not on religious grounds, but there really is no reason. Shops are open often til very late in the week.
We managed when shops closed at 5.30 or 6, closed Sundays and had half day closing too.

Staff work hard, give them a break and a Merry Christmas to one and all.

No.
I think all shops should be closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Give the staff a break.

Why on Earth woukd you?
Don’t actors, creative teams , technical teams , programme sellers, ice cream sellers etc etc deserve time off with their families?

Emphatically not!

Definitely not. I also think they should be closed on Boxing Day. When I was a child many shops and other places were closed on Good Friday too but we were probably more of a Christian country then.

GSM Shops always closed here on every bank holiday.

They still do in Europe . We were in Berlin a couple of years ago over Easter. We arrived on Thursday night. Shops closed Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday, we left Tuesday morning. I wasn’t able to shop but applaud them.

I don't approve or disapprove, I'd leave it to individual theatres. A theatre that was owned and/or staffed by Muslims, Jews, Hindus for example would not be overly concerned about Christmas Day I'd think. I do wonder how many people who disapprove of theatres opening also disapprove of hotels, restaurants and the like opening on Christmas Day. Aren't their staff entitled to time with family? Yet I see more and more people saying they'll be eating out with family on Christmas Day, something that wouldn't have happened in my childhood. I'd not be visiting theatre, hotel or restaurant so I'm not impacted either way.

ginny

No.
I think all shops should be closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Give the staff a break.

No, nor any venue.

Boxing Day pantomime was always a tradition (pre-Covid).

No, Christmas day should remain a day when people can be with friends and family.
Not everyone has friends or family to visit or welcome on Christmas Day.

I hope the venues that will be open will be the ones where wonderful people cook a hot meal for the lonely, the homeless etc and that they might be allowed to open this year.

When John Lewis opened in our local shopping centre they always closed on Monday’s. They carried on fir as long as they coukd but eventually had to open 7 days a week because everyone else did and it was presumably affecting their business.
Hotels, Cafés and restaurants are hospitality and have always opened, slightly different to shops and theatres.

Playing Devils advocate here, I dont see the difference between pubs and restaurants or theatres/film/skating rink/bowling alley etc.

I expect most of the theatre staff, performers etc. are desperate to open any day at present, because of the awful past two years they have had.
Whether they would get many in the audience is another matter.

I hope the venues that will be open where wonderful people cook for the homeless etc
The one I volunteer for hasnt made firm commitments. Other than accepting donations.