Taunton Deane Borough Council, which owns the freehold for the theatre, will bid to administrators BDO for the building's remaining 61 year lease. If successful, the Council will appoint an...
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LIZ HUGHES, who was Creative Programmer for the East of England at London 2012, has joined the University of Cambridge Museums as Cultural Partnerships Associate, to support the development of...
A council blueprint revealed four potential areas for redevelopment to tackle long-standing “problem sites and under-performing parts of the city”. But one of the sites earmarked,...
Museums and galleries vying for the £100,000 prize include the new £35m Hepworth Wakefield gallery, Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and BALTIC, Gateshead’s...
The Society of Independent Theatres aims to support venues with up to 300 seats by sharing audience information, recycling costumes and props between venues, and encouraging longer tours of...
Vincent Regan is behind plans to transform a disused chapel in East Riding into a theatre. Planning officers have recommended the proposal be approved in order to support the local economy and cater...
Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has written to ministers saying a planned £ 11.5bn cut in public spending would mean reductions of up to 10% from each of their budgets, on top...
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Will Gompertz talks to the Today Programme about the Art Newspaper's list of popular exhibitions.
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Government proposals for introducing an ‘ABacc’ measure to monitor schools’ achievement at A level have been quietly changed, without announcement or a statement in Parliament, to...
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Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Director and Operations Manager have been suspended but the University denies the Centre is at risk.
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The Culture Line will place major artworks at central stations on the city’s new Crossrail train line.
The Chairman and Treasurer of the theatre’s Trust have resigned after a bitter row over the Trust’s failure to back their restructuring plans and future fundraising efforts.
The audit office has criticised DCAL for allowing multi-million pound overspends on capital projects for buildings including the Grand Opera House, Lyric Theatre and the Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC...
Sales tax on cultural events have risen from 8% to 21%, leading to a drop of a third in theatre audiences.
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Eleven organisations will use the scheme before it is rolled out nationally at the end of the year.
On Friday between 10am and midnight, more than £2.1m was taken in ticket sales when an additional 150,000 tickets for the show were made available.
The addition of a new 101-seat digital cinema to Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan, Wales, which already has two other screens, has created three jobs.
The need for potential purchasers of the theatre building to "add cultural or tourist value” to the Suffolk seaside town are reducing the prospects of a sale.
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Audiences Northern Ireland has appointed JENNIE WALLACE as Freelance Business Support Consultant, while ROSEANNE STURGEON is the new Freelance Marketing and Communications Consultant. FIONA MCAULEY...
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RSC Deputy Artistic Director ERICA WHYMAN is now Chair of the Board of Theatre503. She replaces EMMA STENNING, who steps down after four years.
BEN THOMSON has been reappointed as the Chair of National Galleries of Scotland for a second four year term.
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SAM HOLCROFT will succeed RYAN CRAIG as Writer in Residence at the National Theatre.
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The new Chair of the Independent Theatre Council is TOPHER CAMPBELL. He has been Artistic Director of film and theatre company Red Room since 2007 and is also the co-founder of arts organisation...
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Paul Hamlyn Foundation has appointed MARTIN BROOKES as its new Director. He was previously Chief Executive of New Philanthropy Capital.