The Turner Prize has opened in Derry, the first time the exhibition has been held outside of England. Director of Tate Britain, Penelope Curtis, said: “Derry was an obvious place to bring the...
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Sir Anthony Caro OM, CBE, has died following a sudden heart attack on Wednesday 23 October.
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JACKIE MCNERNEY is joining the Mayor of London’s Culture team as Cultural Strategy Manager. She has previously worked at the Manchester International Festival and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, and...
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ANDREW AUGHTON has left his role as Chief Executive at Buxton Opera House after 15 years in post. He said: “Fifteen years in the same role has been a huge pleasure and privilege.” 
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Katherine Senior, touring theatre company co-founder and actress, names those who have inspired her most.    
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Meurig Bowen sees no problem with the current proliferation of festivals in the UK.
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NADIAH SCAMMELL has returned to her post as Press Officer at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch following a period of maternity leave. 
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KIRSTY OGG has been named as the new Director of Bloomberg New Contemporaries and will take up the post in mid-December. She has been Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London since 2009 and is...
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David Batty reports on the new wave of visual art education outside of the “London art bubble”, and rising tuition fees.
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Londonderry's year as UK City of Culture has been a triumph, but will gains be frittered away through lack of vision and ambition, asks Charlotte Higgins.
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Ian Youngs speaks to leading figures from the stage community who each assess the state of British theatre.
Funding cuts are starting to bite in the South East, but Dartford Borough Council has pledged continued support for theatre, saying "We'd have to be selling furniture before we started to...
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Nearly a quarter of UK ticket revenues are generated by just 2.5% of customers, and over 2m so-called theatre attenders have lapsed, according to ground-breaking research.
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Providence Equity Partners is set to become the majority shareholder in ATG following a multi-million pound deal which sees co-founder Peter Beckwith sell his stake in the business.
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Jody Ulich reflects on how best to persuade policy makers that the one thing you shouldn’t cut is the thing that feeds the economy.
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The BBC is to create a new award for digital innovation in theatres.
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Awards for off-stage excellence and for the Most Welcoming Theatre have been presented at the TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards. 
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Doncaster’s new arts venue opened in September - a response to negative comments about the town’s history of low engagement with the arts. Kully Thiarai pauses to reflect on the overwhelming welcome that the theatre has received.
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The Pensions Regulator recognises that the arts and entertainment industry faces particular challenges with pensions auto-enrolment but urges the industry to act now.
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Simon Kelner defies anyone not to be entertained,  entranced, illuminated or provoked by Grayson Perry’s first Reith lecture.
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When most communities suffer from an “oversaturation” of non-profit arts organisations trying to engage the same audience, Kelvin Dinkins Jr. asks if merging is the answer. 
The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is to deal with a 7% reduction in funding, significantly cutting Culture Ireland - the agency responsible for promoting Irish arts abroad - by 20%,...
The Arts Council’s £34.1m grant will be reduced to £33.1m in 2014/15 as part of the Welsh Government’s draft budget for next year. ACW Chair Dai Smith said the organisation...
One third of technical or backstage roles in the entertainment industry taken by young people in the last 12 months were unpaid, according to a survey by BECTU. Over half of all paid jobs were with...
Campaigners trying to save the Derby Hippodrome have been denied financial help from the local authority, which previously spent £150k on restoring parts of the building. The council is blaming...

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