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NATHAN POWELL has been appointed Creative Director for two of Merseyside’s most iconic venues - Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres....
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GRAHAM MCKNIGHT will join Crewe’s Lyceum Theatre as Theatre Director. He succeeds RHYS HOPKIN who, after two years in the role, will take...
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Midlands Arts Centre has named ROS ROBINS as its new Chair, succeeding MARY MARTIN. She joined the venue as Vice Chair in 2023 and will...
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RYAN MCBRYDE is to depart from his role as Creative Director of the Mercury Theatre at the end of May after five years in post. As a...
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LIZ SILLETT has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABBT). She will start the role...

Latest Features

  • Sky at night with lights

    With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector can deliver what they do best, in the best way possible?

  • Senedd, Welsh Parliament, Cardiff Bay

    After a recent appearance before Wales’s Culture Committee, Charlotte Faucher has been rethinking our new relationship with Europe.

  • Image of people dressed in white, hands aloft, with white confetti/petals falling

    Long-term Heart of Glass collaborator Chrissie Tiller reflects on working with the Merseyside-based NPO and how, by building deeper relationships with communities, the arts can create fairer futures.

  • Performers on a stage looking up at multiple spotlights

    Evaluation reports in the cultural sector can be packed full of learning. Emma McDowell explores how we might unearth this existing knowledge.

  • Graphic showing aerial view of people holding hands in concentric circles/a spiral

    You may not have met a philanthropy advisor before, but it is a growing profession, so be ready. Emma Beeston, who’s been one for ten years, explains how they work and why they can be helpful for your organisation.

  • People on a outdoor trek

    Introducing an ambitious initiative at a time when subsidised arts organisations are being asked to do less seems like madness. But for Slung Low it is a natural next step in their exploration of where civic responsibility meets cultural capital, writes Rachel Perry.

Readers' Comments

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Posted by Frankafka on A cultural revolution in the arts
We have supported artists and their freedom to free expression since 2009. When we started people could understand why, why in London. We...
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Absolutely this. Hopefully more people will feel able to speak up now the Cass Report has been published. We are sick of being silenced.
I know a writer who had a book deal cancelled and an actor who keeps losing work because they hold there are 2 sexes and women are...
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Thanks for publishing this excellent article. Remember when singer Roisin Murphy got piled on for saying puberty blockers were '...
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Great article. This is exactly what is happening in the arts. The usual suspects no doubt will be along shortly to whine ‘transphobia’ but...
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Just to be clear, my previous reply of “hear hear, well said” was to Frankafka for her “very revealing” comment! 100% agree with that.
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Rosie Kay and Denise Fahmy should be not just saluted but emulated for standing up for freedom of expression in the arts. They have really...
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