Peers call on Government to investigate price of West End tickets
Members of the House of Lords have asked the Government to investigate the effect of rising ticket prices on theatregoers, followi…
Posts
Backstage theatre staff ‘regularly expected to work 15-hour days’
Unions Equity, BECTU and the Association of Lighting Designers have jointly warned that “excessively long working hours&rdqu…
Music provision in state schools down by a fifth over past five years, research finds
A British Phonographic Industry survey of more than 2,000 teachers found that only 12% of the most deprived schools have an orches…
Royal Academy of Music forced to pay thousands to dismissed lecturer
An employment tribunal has ordered the school to pay Francesca Carpos-Young £187k after concluding she had been wrongfully d…
Former theatre employee accused of theft of more than £250,000
Kelvin Lloyd from Shotton in North Wales is alleged to have stolen £273,109 over an 18-month period from Liverpool’s E…
V&A Dundee drawn into Sackler funding dispute
It has emerged through a Scotland on Sunday investigation that the institution was awarded £500k from the Sackler Trust &nda…
Fewer performances for BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC says the orchestra’s live performances for the long-standing Radio 2 show, Friday Night is Music Night, will be redu…
ACE plans to match crowdfunding for Music Education Hubs
The move follows a 2017 pilot project that found arts and heritage crowdfunding donations increased by 17% when the project was ma…
Gulbenkian moves into final phase of civic arts project
The funder aims to develop partnerships with policy makers, funders and arts organisations to achieve a “lasting and systemi…
Top-up funding means go-ahead for Citizens Theatre redevelopment project
Glasgow City Council has pledged £1m in addition to its earlier £5m commitment, in order to close the gap between esti…
MSPs call for public inquiry into Glasgow School of Art fires
The Culture Committee concluded that the School gave insufficient priority to safeguarding the Mackintosh Building and raised conc…
Arts & museums service to lose all its curators
£320k cuts to Leicester’s arts and museums budget will see the service restructured to cover arts, museums, festivals…
Gap widens between private and state music education
While music provision in England’s independent schools has risen by 7%, state schools have seen a 21% decrease over the last…
New concert hall to boost Liverpool’s music scene
University of Liverpool’s new £20.5m Arts and Humanities Centre will include lecture theatres, state-of-the-art facili…
Quality arts education fosters engagement with schools, research finds
Taking part in PE, music, drama and visual arts has the potential to improve academic attainment, health and wellbeing, and is als…
Arts degrees cost 30 per cent more than engineering degrees, report says
The student loan system means that more subsidy is needed to support creative arts graduates as they typically earn less and pay b…
National Lottery Heritage Fund opens £7m loan programme
Theatres and other arts buildings will be eligible for the fund, though the interest rates and term length of loans could deter ma…
Music in schools an ‘ever more urgent necessity’
A major new report makes recommendations for policymakers in the UK and globally on how to improve the quality of the music educat…
Ditch focus on academic achievement to diversify arts, employers urged
London’s creative sector has failed to diversify its workforce despite significant job growth since 2012, a new report concl…
C Venues loses access to second Edinburgh Fringe venue
The operator will no longer be able to lease the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s New Town building after the charity decided to…
Historic Italian opera house in trustee row
La Scala’s decision to appoint the current Saudi Arabian Culture Minister to the board has been described by some board memb…
Peterborough’s Broadway Theatre gets new owners
Selladoor Worldwide will take over the venue following the financial collapse of the previous owners, Performance Art Ventures CIC…
Birmingham arts centre sold to developers by Council
The Drum intercultural arts centre in Aston is among the venues Birmingham City Council has sold off as it seeks to address budget…
Cuts will lead to ‘irreversible damage’, say Aberdeen cultural organisations
Aberdeen Arts Centre, Peacock Visual Arts and the Look Again and Sound festivals are among those warning that the City Council&rsq…
