The Society Of London Theatre

Founded in 1908 by Sir Charles Wyndham, the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is the trade association that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of the major commercial and grant-aided theatres in central London.

Today the Society combines its long-standing roles in such areas as industrial relations and legal advice for members with a campaigning role for the industry, together with a wide range of audience-development programmes to promote theatre-going.

SOLT offers a range of services which it is more effective and efficient to provide collectively rather than by each Member acting individually.

They include:

• advice on legal, general and industrial relations matters
• managing the process of collective bargaining with the entertainments trade unions
• providing commercial services of benefit to the membership as a whole
• promoting theatre-going to the widest possible audience
• representing to the wider public, and to public and other relevant authorities, the interests
  of the theatre industry as a whole
• research on behalf of the industry as a whole

The Board of the Society constitute the Trustees of a charitable subsidiary, the Theatre Development Trust, through which the Society funds certain theatre-related charitable activities. The Society also works closely with other charitable organisations such as Stage One (formerly the Theatre Investment Fund), The Theatres Trust and the London Theatre Council (the last of which it services jointly with Equity).

To download a copy of the Society of London Theatre Annual Report for 2008, please visit the link below (pdf format, will open in a new browser window):

SOLT Annual Report 2008

For all news and show listings please visit the Official London Theatre Guide website, run by the Society.

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SOLT / Equity Agreement for West End Theatre Artists

The SOLT / Equity Agreement can be requested in electronic version from Louisa Bell, 020 7557 6705 or by e-mailing louisa@solttma.co.uk