By Emma Saunders Entertainment reporter, BBC News

More than 200 theatres have lost their grants from Arts Council England, leaving them facing uncertain futures.

But some were given last-minute reprieves, while others were awarded new funding.

So what do the decisions mean for some of the organisations involved?

The Bush Theatre in London faced a 40% grant cut but was eventually given its full grant plus inflation following widespread protest.

Where does all your funding come from?

The Bush was supported by high-profile writers such as Mike Leigh

Some from the Arts Council, some from trusts and foundations, patrons and of course ticket revenue. The Arts Council grant is about half of our entire funding.

They were planning to cut our funding by 40%. We got around �480,000 last year and we've now got that again plus inflation.

What does this mean to the theatre?

We are overjoyed that the Bush can keep on being the Bush. And what this difficult month has proved is that we are a tiny institution and what's important today is to celebrate that this institution has been saved.

My phone is ringing off the hook with playwrights who are thrilled. We had amazing backing.

What are your future plans?

We're going to announce our new season next week. The main thing for us is to get into conversation with our landlords to try to persuade them to work with us so we can stay in our historic building in Shepherd's Bush.

The issues are seating, capacity and the very leaky roof. It's absolutely possible [to expand the capacity]; it is just whether we can get them to work with us.

What would have happened if your grant had been cut?

It is hard to say. Who knows what would have happened or who would have stepped forward? We're just relieved to be back. The Bush is back!

Derby Playhouse's future is up in the air after its �700,000 grant from the Arts Council England was not renewed.

The council said it was not convinced by arguments from the venue "asserting its ability to build a new, viable model".

Where do you get your funding from?

We got just over �700,000 a year from Arts Council England and had �400,000 from the city council, plus box office and fundraising schemes, making a total of about �3 million.

Why do you think Arts Council England have stopped your grant?

Until the two years of building work - the Playhouse is now embedded in a new shopping development - and roadworks which started in autumn 2005 and finished in October 2007, we had been bringing in more than 11,000 people per show.

The Playhouse's production of Treasure Island runs until Saturday

Then there was a 15% drop in the next two years, about �400,000 below expectation.

Since the works have been finished, the first show went on to be the most successful late autumn show that there had ever been.

It seems to us absolutely obvious the building had a major impact and it had nothing to do with bad management.

We put forward a plan to the Arts Council, backed by our administrator and a high-street bank. The Guardian called our latest show - Treasure Island - "a production too good to miss in a theatre too valuable to lose".

The Arts Council say they have lost confidence in Derby Playhouse but we have replaced the entire board and addressed the issues of governance about which they expressed concern.

We have got a vibrant successful theatre producing art that is recognised internationally and nationally; we have a business plan backed by one of the major high-street banks. I do not understand why Arts Council England has not backed it.

What now?

We are dead but we are not buried. We have to find a way in which we can move to the kind of model where we have subscribers - more like a football club run by people who really care, who want to do something for the community.

The theatre has had its grant of �58,179 cut, which amounts to just less than half of its entire funding. It is now under threat of closure unless it can find private investment.

What does the future hold?

Many children are introduced to theatre through the puppet shows

We are now looking at private funding and have a meeting with Arts Council England next week to see if we can negotiate some transitional funding to keep us going for the next year.

We are also talking to Norfolk Council and Norwich City Council, who also provide us with funding, about the possibility of extra money.

Why did Arts Council England slash your grant?