Feature
Do you regularly find your head pickled by the financial rules and regulations pertaining to fundraising? Accountant Pete O’Hara is on hand to steer you safely around the pitfalls.
Lyn Gardner asks for theatres engaging in live screenings to have a proper dialogue with the companies affected and the arts council. Theatre’s vibrant ecology needs them all to thrive together.
Case study
Why would a theatre want the hassle and financial risk of producing its own productions rather than just presenting touring shows? John Baker explains why – and how – the Marlowe Theatre is doing both.
Arts People
From a receptionist in Glasgow to Communications Manager at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, Paula Rabbitt tells us about her career.
Opinion
ArtsProfessional’s recent revelations about Culture Counts and Quality Metrics prompt Richard Fletcher to question how we manage information in the arts. Is it time to speak up about what we want and need?
News
Following a £2m revamp that has taken two years to complete, the Theatre Royal in Dumfries has re-opened with a new rehearsal space, refreshed foyer and enhanced bar and food facilities.
News
Marking the first anniversary of York being made a UNESCO Media Arts City, plans for a 20-day digital ‘Mediale’ – set to involve 100,000 people – have been announced.
News
Equity and UK Theatre have settled a new commercial theatre agreement which will see stage managers and actors outside London receive a 13% pay rise by 2018/19, backdated to April 2015.
News
London’s Arts Theatre is to become the first venue to host a musical written by a computer, which will feature a plot based on the “recipe for success” found in other popular...
Case study
When Torbay’s annual Agatha Christie Week was expanded into a major literature festival things took an unexpected turn. Anna Farthing investigates.
What are the most common misconceptions held by fundraisers? Howard Lake identifies five and challenges them with statistics.
Sam Freeman asks people working in the arts to attach less importance to ‘hard work’ and to instead take the time to find out how they can work more efficiently and happily.
Shellen Lubin examines theatre’s continuing gender inequality problem, questioning why change has not yet taken place and what immediate action should be taken.
Arts subjects – in which there are no right answers – help students to deal with uncertainty. So we must protect arts education at all costs, writes headmaster Peter Green.
News
The National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company are among the organisations participating in a ‘digital showcase’, which will allow audiences to discover exhibits and engage with...
Case study
How do you encourage new writing on a shoestring budget? Joe Sumsion reveals how The Dukes’ new scheme is doing just that.
Arts People
Five days, five photos. What does a week with a print-making, book-binding artist like Ben Goodman look like?
News
Originally estimated to cost £35m and due to open in 2012, the Pontio Arts & Innovation Centre in Bangor has finally opened to the public having cost £49m to build.
News
Lancashire County Council has approved plans to close five museums and introduce entry charges at five others, in a bid to save £1.13m in 2017-18.
News
The Kirkgate Centre says the rising costs of services and materials have pushed its project over budget by about £800k, bringing the total to over £3m.
News
Twenty-three gifts of over £1m were made to organisations in the cultural sector in 2014, according to the latest ‘Million Dollar Donors’ report, published by Coutts. The value of...
Philanthropists Rory and Elizabeth Brooks discuss their reasons for supporting arts and cultural institutions and why they believe Tate is “at the top of the tree”.
Feature
How do you stop art crime when it is the most lucrative criminal sub-sector after guns and drugs? Jeanna Heeraman has a few tips.
News
Fundraising income is catching up with public funding as a source of income for Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio Organisations, according to new figures published by the DCMS....
News
The autumn statement, which protected money to the arts but delivered a blow to local authorities, has drawn mixed responses.