Friday, 26 June 2015
What effect do trigger warnings have? Tiffany Antone dares theatres to avoid sanitising performances for fear of offending audiences.
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Matt Burriesci explains why measuring the worth of an arts education by monetary value alone is as ridiculous as assessing the value of the Parthenon by its square footage and proximity to major highways.
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Smartphones are changing the way we tell stories, says Kate Pullinger, presenting new and exciting opportunities for arts organisations.
Berlin's Komische Oper is changing the face of opera by casting a robot the size of a small child as the star of its latest production, ‘My Square Lady’.
Monday, 22 June 2015
Joyce McMillan examines the reasons why the relatively generous arts funding in Scotland is not making the impact it should.
A public art project in Sheffield is exploring new ways for the subsidised sector to work with philanthropists and private collectors.
Fiona Mountford talks to the Young Vic’s David Lan about the case for arts funding and the commercialisation of publicly-funded theatres.
Friday, 19 June 2015
Artist Zoë Coombs Marr busts open the myths about what happens to arts funding once a grant is successful.
Joe Pindelski profiles director Regina Taylor, explaining how her use of a website to accompany a stage production may be the best way to artistically engage the online community.
Thursday, 18 June 2015
A Los Angeles stage website is causing a stir by asking theatres to pay $150 for a review, Mike Boehm reports.
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Amelia Crouch assesses the recent ‘Curating the Campus Symposium’ and finds fears that universities reject works of genuine artistic value in favour of populist offerings.
Jazz Musician Tim Whitehead reports on his meeting with Arts Council England, at which they discussed how to secure more support for jazz.
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Rupert Christiansen meets Martin and Lizzie Graham, the couple who created an internationally renowned opera festival in their back garden.
Arguing for music education because it improves children’s language or social skills is like promoting kissing because it gives you stronger lip muscles for eating soup neatly, says Peter Greene.
Monday, 15 June 2015
Headteacher Tom Sherrington analyses the impact that the new compulsory English Baccalaureate – and its omission of arts subjects – will have.
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Peter Bazalgette outlines the Arts Impact Fund, a £7m pot lending money from commercial and public sources that proves the arts sector is “successfully diversifying”.
With government cuts to public subsidy continuing, Fin Kennedy encourages theatre to do more than simply present facts about the industry’s worth – and engage in a proper dialogue.
Tom Keighley profiles a series of arts organisations in the North East that are boosting the economy by giving people skills and experience.
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Darren Henley, ACE’s new Chief Executive, joins the chorus of senior arts figures denouncing a recent comment piece in the Telegraph calling for the end to subsidised theatre.
Tuesday, 09 June 2015
There is a shortage in excellent opportunities for ethnic minority and disabled actors, so let’s stop talking about change and give quotas a try, says Lyn Gardner.