Listening and learning
The RSC’s Open Stages project has brought professional theatre companies and amateur theatre-makers together. Kelly Donaldso…
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Tax benefits to be widened
A government consultation has resulted in revised proposals that will see more art forms and smaller companies eligible for tax re…
Letter: ACE scandal
Alan Cleaver responds to ArtsProfessional's revelation that Arts Council England used more than £10m of spare capital fu…
Job Ladder
Chris Taylor charts her career from a drama youth worker to Director of New Writing South.
Going seriously green
As the first arts venue to be awarded a 3* Industry Green rating, the Lyric Hammersmith is a model of best practice. Kim M Grant d…
An energy makeover
Tim Atkinson reminds us why we need to reduce our energy use and reports on the energy-saving improvements made at the Palace Thea…
Creating arts managers
Bethany McDonald Shepherd believes that students must develop their business knowledge and practice, and the Commercial Education…
Book review: Journal of the Plague Year
Are you up to the challenge? Vicky Prior says there’s much to learn from Max Stafford-Clark’s journal from the years f…
Painful progress?
Louisa Davies asks if England’s funding structures are hampering the development of our emerging artists.
Talent, tenacity and something else
How do you start out as a theatre director? Lisa Spirling describes a regional programme which nurtures visionary, young directors…
International travel
Part of the Brighton Festival, 'caravan showcase' presents contemporary English theatre to international programmers. Cath…
Theatre tax relief for all
Sean Egan takes a long-term view of the proposed theatre tax relief, suggesting how it could benefit subsidised and commercial the…
Manchester Police back use of the arts to help the homeless
The arts are a vital asset in the fight against the damaging effects of homelessness, the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Comm…
A journey to somewhere
A three-year theatre residency at a secure clinic for forensic psychiatry patients is benefiting not just patients but carers and…
Job Ladder
Writer, consultant and director Maria Oshodi shares the steps of her career path.
On the wilder side of Europe
On an arts programme secondment with the British Council in Ukraine, Liz Pugh has been witness to the turbulent geopolitics of the…
The community rights challenge
Can our theatres be considered as ‘community theatres’ and be listed as Assets of Community Value? Mhora Samuel discus…
Consultation will inform plans for theatre tax relief
A Government consultation is seeking to formalise the details of a proposed corporation tax relief for theatre productions, announ…
A well grounded community
How does a tiny Georgian theatre survive in a working class town? Esther Harris talks to Richard Stride, owner of the Groundlings…
Apprentice & internship schemes honoured at awards
An innovative apprenticeship scheme has won Telford & Wrekin Council the title of Creative & Cultural Employer of the Year…
From docks to landmark destination
Cultural investment in Salford’s regeneration may have created The Lowry, but its impact comes from a distinctive, entr…
Creative and commercial
Jim Beirne describes how Newcastle’s Live Theatre has created a portfolio of creative enterprises to support the theatre'…
Cultural DNA and ecosystems of success
Jonothan Neelands warns that although creativity and cultural vibrancy are part of our shared DNA, the flourishing Creative Indust…
The cultural map is being redrawn – but does it go far enough?
Beatrice Pembroke sees a new role for old institutions in a changing world that needs fresh thinking in new spaces – spaces…
