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The Rockefeller Foundation has provided a $1.46m grant to allow 20,000 New York high school students to see Broadway success ‘Hamilton’ at $10 each.

The new centre in Nottingham will house three fully accessible dance studios, changing rooms, offices and workspaces. Set to open in summer 2016, it has been funded by Nottingham City Council, Arts Council England and independent trusts and foundations.

Lego refused to sell the artist’s studio a bulk load of its plastic bricks to be used in a new artwork, as it “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works”. The move has sparked international cries of censorship and the artist has been inundated with offers of Lego from his supporters.

The Grange Estate has not renewed Grange Park Opera’s lease, but will be launching a new annual opera season overseen by its owner. Grange Park Opera, which has been based at the estate since 1998, is in discussions over a lease at West Horsley Place in Surrey.

Concerns have been raised about the addition to the form, which will be introduced from April 2016, of a new line warning donors that if they pay less tax in a year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all of their donations then they have to pay the difference.

Sinn Fein Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Carál Ní Chuilín is to face a committee hearing over allegations that money was “poured” into the West Belfast Festival, which is managed by four senior members of Sinn Fein.