The shellacking that Quentin Letts received for his Daily Mail review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe So and So Arts Club started by accident. The actor and director Sarah Berger was sharing a desk space in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSculptor Lawrence Holofcener is demanding the return of a bronze Laurence Olivier work he created for Chichester Festival Theatre, if the venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMWell, we’ve made. Culture is in the two major party manifestos. You have to look pretty hard, but it’s there. The Tories
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMOne of the phrases that has been associated with the hustings for as long as there have been elections has already been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThere’s little doubt that when the Royal Shakespeare Company scampered away from its London home at the Barbican 13 years ago, it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMStage and screen actor who played Reggie Perrin’s long-suffering wife in the television comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMIf you think that the troubles of managing theatres in difficult financial times have a certain deja vu about them, you’re right. We’ve been here before, we’ve just forgotten. That…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMHome, to paraphrase Robert Frost, is where they have to let you in. Manchester’s Home, which opens in April and has just announced its first programming, is going to be the kind of place f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMNobody can be unaware by now that 2015 and beyond is going to be bad for subsidised theatre. The arts council is certain to lose funding which will have to be passed on, and beleaguered̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM2015 will be the worst of times for the arts but it might also be the best of times, and it will be a tale of more than two cities. Core Cities, the pressure group…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMBrighton Hippodrome is a glorious confection, grade II* and one of Frank Matcham’s wonderful rococo creations. It was built in the 1890s as a circus theatre, one of only three that survive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMPerhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised at the choice of Darren Henley to succeed Alan Davey as head of Arts Council England. We had all been looking forward to getting a female chief exe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMDiversity. It is a synonym for variety, for multiplicity, for mixture, all positive things. So why is it used in a negative sense in terms of culture? The arts council has been adopting ‘d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThere were some sweeties for the arts in the autumn statement, like cash for Manchester’s new theatre, but not many. The truth is, if you thought the last three years were tough for cultur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMEducation secretary Nicky Morgan thinks young people choosing the arts are making a choice that will “hold them back for the rest of their lives”. Well, at least it’s started a convers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMSpeaking at last week’s State of the Arts event, Michael Heseltine hinted that culture’s funding difficulties could all be solved by philanthropists and corporations, declaring that, “…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThe real tragedy about English National Opera’s withdrawal from the Orfeo project is that it would have been a pioneer for other partnerships that some see as essential for the secure and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThe Commons Select Committee has clambered back on the regions-versus-London funding bandwagon and decided to tell Arts Council England how it should apportion its funding, specifically its …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThe theatre sector is the most tender of creatures in Arts Council England’s care, the one that is being hit most by local authority cuts and will be smacked again and probably again in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMBattersea Arts Centre is a beacon of dramatic creativity, a nursery for talent and innovation and arguably the birthplace of modern immersive theatre. BAC invented the ‘scratch’ methodol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMA year ago a considerable stink was kicked up by a report, Rebalancing Our Cultural Capital, which showed that Londoners are spoiled in terms of arts funding compared the regions. The ROCC r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThe National Theatre’s annual report is just out, the last for the stunning partnership of Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. It records another fantastic year that saw the National celebrate…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI know the Welsh as essentially warm-hearted people, garrulous but also generous to a fault with a tough national character striated with coal dust and a deep love of the arts, especially mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWith the Scottish independence referendum behind us there is a sigh of relief from one sector at least. Theatre and touring companies have had to look increasingly at charitable trusts and f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFor years the demand for decent parts for women, particularly those in, as we say, mid-career, has been a cry in the wilderness. Hollywood is only interested in undraped pulchritude at one e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMUnless you’ve been locked in a sealed box for the last month, you’ll know that this week the Scots will decide whether they want to be joined at the hip with England. For all that…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMIt will be a big night on Thursday when Maxine Peake starts her new job as an associate artist at the Royal Exchange in Manchester. Not that the audience will be bothered about her status…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThere’s a contradiction about near-legendary Sheffield-based experimentalists Forced Entertainment. On the one hand, it has been at the far front end of performance and innovation, on the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWhen theatrical people get involved in politics, like the Tricycle Theatre’s artistic director Indhu Rubasingham cancelling the UK Jewish Film Festival’s showings there, a creepy tingle …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWe’ve had a year or more of being told that London gets unfairly weighted for subsidy against the regions. Figures have been strewn around the landscape, passions have been spent in the le…
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