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The Musicians' Union 'rejects' Northern Ballet's decision to proceed with cutting the Sinfonia for some touring performances in 2024, labelling the move 'unacceptable'.
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Musicians from London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) walked out of a rehearsal on 7 February ahead of a performance in protest over unpaid wages.
Around half the players, who are all freelance, took...
Arts People
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH will leave the Young Vic in the autumn after six years as Artistic Director,
He joined the Young Vic in February 2018, becoming the first African Caribbean director to lead a...
Arts People
The Board of the RSC have announced the appointment of ANDREW LEVESON as Executive Director, to work alongside Co-Artistic Directors TAMARA HARVEY and DANIEL EVANS.
Leveson joins the company...
Arts People
SUSIE NEWBERY has been appointed Executive Director of Complicité, the London-based touring theatre company.
She will take up the post in April following the departure of current Executive...
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A West End theatre has cancelled a speaking event to be hosted by journalist Douglas Murray called 'Standing with Israel' following claims that staff refused to work after receiving outside...
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Arts-centric youth organisations will receive more than £3m from the government's £90m Youth Investment Fund, with the money going to some of the country's most underserved areas.
Arts People
SAM MCSHANE will join London's multi-arts venue, Kings Place, as Artistic Director. She will take up the post in May 2024.
McShane will lead the programming team in partnership with ZOE JEYES...
Opinion
For the past two years, Mobius Industries has run a survey to take the temperature of arts PR. As Emma Berge reports, the results reveal widespread concern about the shrinkage of arts coverage.
Feature
Hospital arts programmes are flourishing thanks to a national network and a groundswell of support for such initiatives, as Laura Waters explains.
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The decision follows completion of an initial assessment into the role and functions of Arts Council England that could have resulted in no further action being taken.
Arts People
Sustainable events organisation A Greener Future (AGF) has announced DAVID HOPKINS as its new General Manager.
AGF works to help events, festivals and venues become greener by...
News
Last summer’s Manchester International Festival (MIF23) attracted more than 325,000 visitors to the city, according to a new report.
The report, by Manchester City Council’s Economy...
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Study finds declining public investment levels have resulted in museum trusts using reserves to plug gaps, running the risk of contravening their legal obligations as charities.
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Collective management organisation PPL paid out £279.6m to 165,000 performers and recording rights holders in 2023.
This marks an increase of £34.9m (14.3%) on the previous year and is...
Arts People
PAUL KELLY global CEO of DK, has been appointed Chair of The Reading Agency, having been a board member since 2018 and serving as Vice-Chair since last year.
He succeeds MATTHEW LITTLEFORD...
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Backstage workers at English National Opera receive revised redundancy offer, which trade union Bectu is encouraging them to accept.
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Funding has been set aside by Stockport Council to cover repairs at the Forum Theatre in Romiley, Stockport, which has been closed since September due to the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated...
Composer Howard Goodall details the 'root-and-branch dismantling' of music education since 2010 as he calls for government to rethink further reductions in resources.
Diluting access to art will ultimately affect the quality of the art we see in the future, writes Poppy Burton, as she analyses the current level of government funding.
The National Centre for Creative Health has gone live with an online toolkit designed to help others develop their own approach to creative health.
As debate around the restitution of museum artefacts rumbles on, the UK has limited the leeway public museums have to return objects. Angelica Villa reports.
American tenor Holden Madagame shares how transitioning impacted his music career and how operas can create welcoming environments for trans performers.
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Rural touring company Pentabus has annouced it is moving to new premises at the recently refurbished Ludlow Assembly Rooms.
Having spent the past 40 years on the farm estate at the Old School in...
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Partnership between Fringe Society and local university forms part of efforts to double number of affordable rooms available to performers for the 2024 festival.