Mhora Samuel responds to Angus MacKechnie’s call for theatres to be shared with the communities that surround them.
Robin Simpson responds to Liz Hill’s call for a new approach to audience development in the arts.
As Sport England celebrates the impact of its ‘This Girl Can’ advertising campaign, is it time for the arts to come up with a new approach to audience development? Liz Hill examines the evidence.
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?
Institutional favouritism lies at the heart of Arts Council England’s funding framework, and ACE does itself no favours by trying to defend the indefensible, says Liz Hill.
David Stevenson deplores the way that a subjective decision to grant public money to a commercial company is being dressed up as the evidence-based decision of an objective funding system.
Allegations that Liverpool's Everyman & Playhouse Theatre are failing to embrace the local community couldn't be further from the mark, says Rebecca Ross-Williams.
Adrian Moule welcomes a report that encourages the UK's arts councils to offer loans.
How and why do rural touring companies thrive? Sue Robinson reviews the latest contribution from Francois Matarasso, a writer who has been helping her to answer similar questions for 20 years.
As the Government prepares to make the English Baccalaureate compulsory in the GCSE curriculum – with arts subjects victims of the “trade-off” – Liz Hill comes clean about her own inadequate education.