Arts People
The British American Drama Academy (BADA) has announced that STEPHEN UNWIN, founder of English Touring Theatre, is to succeed IAN WOOLDRIDGE as Dean and Director.
Arts People
The new Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, SHONA McCARTHY is to be Chair of the Board of Trustees at Salford-based Walk the Plank.
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Conductor MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA is to join City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as its 12th Music Director from September 2016 for a three-year period.
Ready or not, the arts sector is set to be swarmed by new and personal forms of tech, says Ben Rossi. How will that change its work?
News
Over 40,000 people have signed a petition calling on the museum to scrap plans to employ all new staff through the commercial arm of the V&A, which has private sector status.
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As part of a widespread diversity drive, the theatre has pledged to guarantee a 50:50 gender balance of directors and living writers by 2021, and to become more ‘gender-fluid’ with its...
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Equity has confirmed that both a pay cut and the loss of four jobs are planned for the chorus, which the body intends to challenge with industrial action.
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Eight years after launching the initiative, Artistic Director Rufus Norris has signalled that disappointing ticket sales and funding cuts will force Sunday performances at the National Theatre to end...
Feature
The separation of Treasury and Lottery funding for the arts could pave the way for a more equitable future, and the forthcoming White Paper is the perfect opportunity to make this change, argue the authors of the 2014 ROCC report.
From issue 290 Feature
For small arts companies, it’s a fiercely competitive time to be applying for funding from trusts and foundations. Annie Rigby and Natalie Querol share their very different experiences. 
Arts People
Having been with the company as Executive Director since 2013, JUDITH KILVINGTON is to become Joint Chief Executive of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre alongside DOMINIC HILL.
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Arts Council England (ACE) has chosen three partner galleries around England to curate exhibitions of artworks drawn from its Collection over the next three years. £1.8m has been awarded to...
Arts People
The winner of the top honour at last week’s Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards – Caroline Miller – reflects on the people who have inspired and guided her career.
Mari Valverde isn’t surprised that those new to classical music don’t enjoy it – their ears haven’t been trained. Could some clever programming be the answer?
News
Following a thwarted bid to save a Rembrandt portrait for the nation, the Art Fund will halt all campaigns until changes are made to UK export regulation. Director Stephen Deuchar said: “If no...
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A new joint venture, expected to be established in 2017, will offer customers a joint PPL and PRS for Music public performance licence.
Feature
When audiences for her contemporary circus tours stagnated, Rachel Clare of Crying Out Loud realised a fresh approach was needed. She reveals how Circus Evolution has revolutionised circus marketing.
With 1% of American arts organisations – those with a budget of over $10m – receiving 50% of the overall contributed funding, is it time for a return to high levels of public funding in the US, asks Andy Horwitz.
If the arts sector is actually intent on embracing inclusion and tackling segregation, it needs to make everyday opportunities more accessible, instead of focusing on ‘disabled-only’ initiatives, says Stacey Guthrie.
News
The Association of School and College Leaders has warned that a compulsory English Baccalaureate (EBacc) could force music and drama to become “the preserve of the elite”.
News
With funding from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, producer Sue Scott Davison is transforming the art deco Broadway Cinema into a theatre– due to open in the autumn – which...
News
In order to create a “consolidated national collection”, the Society’s hundreds of thousands of photographs and equipment is to transfer from Bradford’s National Media Museum...
Case study
Spending time in the great outdoors is proven to boost wellbeing, but how can the arts encourage people to do it? Nicky Goulder describes one project that is doing just that. 
It’s hard to find any piece of opera in the canon that doesn’t contain some form of bigotry or prejudice, says Philip Kennicott. Rather than holding opera to today’s moral standards, maybe we should accept it for what it is: an archaic, but beautiful throwback to the Renaissance.
One 16 year-old reveals why taking dance at GCSE was one of the best decisions she ever made, despite the consistent argument that she was too intelligent to waste her time on an ‘arty’ course.

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