News
The King’s Theatre will close for two years and see capacity reduced from 1,300 to 1,100 to provide more space for hospitality. The box office, which was revamped six years ago, will be...
The ukulele is replacing the recorder as the ‘go-to instrument’ for early music education in the view of many teachers, writes Elle Hunt – but a small proportion of pupils still want to learn this one-time staple of school concerts.
News
Ten members of Artistic Directors for the Future, a programme supporting theatre professionals from diverse backgrounds, will be granted access to the boardrooms of five venues over a four-month...
Arts People
CATH JAMES, most recently Acting Artistic Director and CEO of South East Dance, has been selected as the organisation’s new Artistic Director. The appointment comes as part of an...
News
A report has concluded that extending the award would be of limited use unless a new scheme were to incorporate professional development and network-building opportunities.
Arts People
EDDIE NIXON, who has spent time as both Associate Director and Director of Theatre and Artist Development at The Place, will become the organisation’s new Artistic Director. He takes over from...
Arts People
FRANCESCA HEGYI, formerly Executive Director of Hull 2017 UK City of Culture, will join Edinburgh International Festival as Executive Director in February 2019.
Arts People
Actor and Director AMEET CHANA is to become Associate Director at Rifco Theatre Company, directing the company’s next studio production in Autumn 2019 and helping the company support emerging...
Arts People
Live entertainment business Trafalgar Entertainment Group, created by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire, has appointed ANDREW HILL as Business Affairs Director and TIM MCFARLANE as Executive...
Arts People
CHRIS BRANNICK, who is currently Chair of the Newham Music Trust after periods as both Joint CEO and Interim Senior Director, has been appointed as the new Chair of Sound Connections. He will take...
Arts People
Outdoor art show commissioner Without Walls has selected eight new people to join its Board of Directors. These are JANE ALI-KNIGHT, Professor in Festival and Event Management at Edinburgh Napier...
Arts People
ÁSA RICHARDSDÓTTIR , currently Director of Ice Hot Reykjavík 2018, the biannual Nordic Dance Platform, will take over as Secretary General of IETM, the international network for contemporary...
News
Screened versions of live performances are mostly made by large organisations and consumed by those that would attend the arts anyway.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s inequitable distribution of funding across the country is scandalous and indefensible - the quango should be shut down, writes Ciarán ó Maoláin.
Alexandra Villareal meets ballet dancers who have had the courage to identify – and challenge – a culture of sexual misconduct in the industry.
News
Appearing before a parliamentary culture committee, the national funder’s bosses said the organisation would never seek to “inhibit” the ability for organisations to mount future...
News
After music’s exclusion from the Russell Group’s list of ‘facilitating subjects’ was criticised in a Lords debate, Education Minister Lord Agnew said his department will write...
News
The Government has also been advised to establish national pop and rock competitions, and significantly increase funding for musical instruments.
News
As a four-year funding agreement with the Heritage Lottery Fund comes to an end, taking away two thirds of the organisation’s funding, 100 MPs have urged Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright to...
News
The Incorporated Society of Musicians is calling for a two-year working visa to allow musicians to move freely around the European Union for a fixed period, if freedom of movement ends after Brexit.
Feature
What would a no-deal Brexit mean for employment in the arts? Damon Culbert foresees widespread disruption and labour shortages unless immigration policies change.
Opinion
Independent artists and producers are vulnerable to exploitation in a two-tier system characterised by precarious employment among the majority of cultural workers says Martin Cox, who challenges the status quo.
Feature
Resilience in the arts may be linked with finance - but for Debbie Richards, it’s really about making bold and exciting changes to realise big ambitions.
Arts People
The CEO and Artistic Director of Déda reflects on the influential figures he has learned from.
From issue 318 Case study
In Wales, people living with dementia, and their carers, are being offered fiction as well as self-help books to help them manage the condition, explains Debbie Hicks.

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