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After eight years as Head of Marketing and Communications at West Yorkshire Playhouse, PAULA RABBITT is to leave to become Communications Manager at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.
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We are delighted to announce that FRANCES RICHENS has been promoted from Web Editor to Deputy Editor, and that CHRISTY ROMER has joined the team as our Publishing Executive. Welcome!
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TERRY HANDS, who has been Artistic Director of Clywd Theatr Cymru since 1997, will be replaced by TAMARA HARVEY, who recently directed Pride and Prejudice at Sheffield Crucible.
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REYAHN KING is to replace JANET BARNES as York Museums Trust Chief Executive. King leaves the Heritage Lottery Fund, where she worked as Head of the West Midlands region.
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PIPPA FOX, formerly of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmonds, is to be the new Company Administrator at Gecko Theatre.
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Chichester Festival Theatre Artistic Director JONATHAN CHURCH is set to leave in 2016, after 10 years in post, to establish his own production company backed by Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.
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DAVID BROWNLEE, who has been Executive Director of UK Theatre since 2012, will step down in September to form a new industry guidance company called Bon Culture, in partnership with Family Arts...
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News
Most arts sector workers feel able to discuss their caring responsibilities with a manager, but few are actively asked about these, a survey reveals.
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Feature
David Carrington explains what arts organisations seeking commercial support can learn from the recent Tate/BP sponsorship freedom of information case.
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Feature
The University of Bath – a university that offers no arts courses – recently launched a new arts venue, but its artists in residence programme has been reaching out to staff, students and the local population for years, says John Struthers.
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Feature
Debra King and Sarah Perks share their experiences of delivering a multi-artform project as part of the sister-cities celebrations between Wuhan in China and Manchester.
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Feature
Teachers in the north west of England are making notable inroads as advocates for the arts in schools. Jude Bird describes the SLiCE programme.
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Book review
Anna B. Sexton reads Mel Evans’ Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts, and says it’s time to change the way we think.
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Subsidising the arts is not without its dangers, Ivan Hewett tells The Telegraph’s naysayers, but relying solely on the free market would be much worse.
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Feature
Sean Egan believes the new Theatre Tax Relief signals a shift away from government support for the subsidised sector in favour of the commercial sector, and will cement a London-centric focus.
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Arts People
As he joins Wasps in Scotland, Stuart McCue-Dick reflects on his career combining accountancy and a love for the arts.
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Art therapy gets a rough ride for treating illnesses like dementia, says Lynne Wallis, but it’s “cheaper than anti-psychotic drugs and a lot more effective”.
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After revelations that oil giant Shell put pressure on the Science Museum to change their climate change exhibition, Alistair Brown asks where the line should be drawn with commercial sponsorship and the arts.
Four theatres, including Bristol Old Vic, join the Writers' Centre Norwich in a new Creative England programme aimed at helping emerging writers develop film writing skills. Bristol Old Vic Chief...
Since reopening in mid-February the gallery has welcomed more than 180,000 visitors, a figure which has previously never been reached over an entire year.
After realising that only 35% of the plays it produced in the past seven years were written by women, Headlong has committed to commissioning an equal number of plays from men and women. Artistic...
The Edouard VII theatre and the Mogador hope that English surtitles will help them to attract more tourists.
Emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the oil giant raised concerns about a climate science exhibition and symposium, saying: “we receive a great deal of interest around...
New owner, MBI Hotels, is working closely with the Llandudno Seaside Buildings Preservation Trust, which hopes to restore the derelict building as a “fringe, everyman theatre”.
A Broadway producer and investor claim their free phone app offering last-minute theatre tickets could help discover “a new generation of theatregoing audiences” in the West End.