But Georgy Jamieson, publicity officer for the Two Rivers Theatre Company, which is staging Calendar Girls at the 70-seat Sir John Mills Theatre in Ipswich, in September next year, said there was no need for other groups to cancel.
At the risk of receiving a barrage of patronising tweets from town planners and BBC employees about how friendly the people of Salford are, it seems to me that a lot of the UK's great cities' "regeneration" plans really just mean, "Let's throw up a Cote by the river and a theatre where they can stage Waiting For Godot every couple of years – that'll keep the rents up".
The Rivers of China, Theatre Works, St Kilda, 20 to 30 May Think local, perform local as emerging artists, writers and musicians come together for the annual three-day True North arts festival in Preston.
Some of the year's highlights include: January 8 Awakening Opening outdoor spectacle along the river Lee including street theatre, water and lighting effects, music and pyrotechnics.
But those deals, so crucial to one country, set up an imbalance of resources that has led analysts to look to this river system as the likely theatre for the first of the long-heralded water wars.
Stratford Festival England's world-famous bard is celebrated during Canada's annual Stratford Festival – held in the city of Stratford, which has its very own river Avon coursing alongside its theatres.
Just up the river are the equally prestigious Carré Theatre (which showcases acts as diverse as Spamalot, David Sedaris and Tori Amos) and the Hermitage Amsterdam museum.
Joan Rivers Valentine's Show (Tuesday) Ms. Rivers returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe in Times Square for another night of searing comedy at the expense of Hollywood celebrities and their unfortunate red carpet fashion decisions.
The heavens opened, and after two days of nonstop rain the river burst its banks and swamped the theatre.
Lyric Theatre, Belfast Brick terraces, set against a river frontage, flow into a spacious building to provide Northern Ireland's only repertory theatre.
