First permanent home for Reading Rep
A new building, set to open in 2020, will convert an old Salvation Army building into a venue with new front-of-house facilities,…
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Busker crackdown in London borough following complaints
Street performers will be limited to 45-minute performances with a “full and varied repertoire” and will be unable to…
Arts Council calls in Plain English Campaign
The campaigning group which challenges “gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information” has been brought in to…
Creative Scotland head highlights lack of funding
Acting Chief Executive Iain Munro told a Scottish Parliament inquiry into the future of arts funding in the country that it would…
Stagecoach dropped as Turner Prize sponsor
The proposed partnership with the bus company, for an exhibition of the four shortlisted artists, has been dropped a day after it…
Foul play suspected in auction of Hertfordshire council art collection
Concerns have been raised that an online bidder may have been deliberately pushing up prices among the 82 prints, drawings and pai…
Study suggests new operating model for Shetland theatre
Shetland Arts, which runs the 280-seat Garrison Theatre, is looking for volunteers to explore the potential of an independently-ru…
Backlash after Polish gallery takes down suggestive banana art
Despite having been on display for several years, a 1973 video showing a woman eating a banana was removed after the head of the N…
Wales embraces arts in new national curriculum
Details of Welsh Government proposals for embedding the arts in the new curriculum have been put out to consultation prior to bein…
Progress on closing gender pay gap
Eight of England's largest arts employers reduced their gender pay gaps last year, with Arts Council England ending the year w…
Roll-out for scheme to bring theatre to Scottish primary schools
Following a successful three-year pilot, Imaginate’s Theatre in Schools Scotland scheme, produced in partnership with Nation…
Arts graduates among those ‘under-using’ their education
New research by the Office for National Statistics finds 31% of graduates are overeducated for the job they’re doing, a rise…
Brighton Dome to become 5G-enabled
The venue says the technology, the result of a collaboration with Digital Catapult, will drive technological innovation in the loc…
Historic tax case could have repercussions for ‘hundreds’ of actors, Equity claims
The theatre union warned that performer Robert Glenister losing a long-running dispute with HMRC over backdated national insurance…
Funder tells artists to charge higher fees
The first round of the new Jerwood Bursaries sees artists invited to resubmit their funding bids to include more pay for themselve…
Capital project expertise ‘not exploited’ across the arts
A new report urges Arts Council England to raise the profile of the successful capital projects it funds and take better advantage…
Arts Council ‘rigid and homogenous’ say job applicants
A damning independent report found that personal connections, professional networks and unpaid work were particularly influential…
National Portrait Gallery eyes elite status with major redevelopment
The gallery plans to raise its public profile and combat falling visitor numbers by changing the way its collection is displayed a…
Green light for £45m Edinburgh concert hall
Local councillors voted to grant planning permission to the controversial Impact Centre, which will come with a 1000-seat auditori…
University arts centre to emulate Lincoln Centre
Councillors have approved plans for ‘Creative Centre’, a new arts hub at York St John University. It will be modelled…
Paul McCartney slams government for loss of LIPA funding
The musician, who co-founded Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), says a “flawed” Office for Students (OfS)…
Tate Modern next target of Extinction Rebellion climate protests
The protest group has set out plans to stage a ‘die-in’ at the gallery to draw attention to the global decline in the…
38% of West End performers are BAME, study finds
Over a third of performers in West End musicals are BAME, but BAME men and women are twice as likely to be given an ensemble role…
Edinburgh Printmakers moves to former rubber factory
A multi-million-pound renovation has transformed the North British Rubber Factory building in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, into an a…
