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Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will not reappoint Liz Forgan, the chair of Arts Council England, when her current terms ends in January 2013.
Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid is fighting to save Northumberland Theatre Company, which will lose its core funding from Arts Council England at the end of this month.
Dreamthinkspeak's The Rest is Silence is to extend its run at Brighton Festival in response to high ticket demand.
Hornsea Floral Hall in Yorkshire may be saved from demolition, if proposals for the local council to hand over the freehold of the building to community groups can be agreed in the next six …
Tax breaks for TV drama production are to be introduced, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced during his budget speech today.
Entertainment marketing agency AKA has launched its second Australian office.
Jenny Seagrove is to star in the national tour of Volcano, which marks the first major production of Noel Coward's play.
Audiences will be "arrested" by the Syrian secret service as part of 66 Minutes in Damascus, one of seven world premieres programmed for the London International Festival of Theatre this sum…
London's Royal Court is to present its productions of Posh and Jumpy in the West End in collaboration with the Ambassador Theatre Group.
London's Old Vic has signed a sponsorship deal with global accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for its under-25s tickets, as artistic director Kevin Spacey says he is "embarrassed" theat…
A new stage interpretation of the Dracula story is to be presented at the Barbican this autumn.
The West End is planning to launch reduced-price theatre ticket deals for the Olympics period next month.
Stephen Sondheim has won the fifth Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography for his book Look, I Made a Hat.
Researchers studying the design and construction of new theatre buildings have claimed that the current UK system for funding major capital projects is "corrosive".
Wild animals will be banned from circuses as soon as possible, according to the government, although it plans to push ahead with a licensing scheme in the meantime.
Barking's Broadway Theatre has been granted a stay of execution, after its local council decided to weigh up the venue's options instead of cutting all support at the end of this month as pl…
A stage adaptation of Steptoe and Son by Kneehigh and West Yorkshire Playhouse will premiere this summer.
The writers behind Spring Awakening are to showcase their new work Alice By Heart as part of this year's Latitude Festival.
Alan Ayckbourn is to direct his play Absurd Person Singular to mark its 40th anniversary this year.
Yonah Acosta won both English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer and People's Choice Awards last night.
David Eldridge's In Basildon is to extend its run at the Royal Court.
A cast of 100 local people are to collaborate with German theatre company Rimini Protokoll on a headline show for this year's Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
The upcoming tour of Hair starring Gareth Gates has been cancelled after its producers filed for bankruptcy, according to a statement released by the show's general managers.
Monty Python star Terry Jones is to team up with composer Anne Dudley to create a new opera inspired by The Owl and the Pussycat this summer.
Graham Sheffield, the new director of arts at the British Council, has said that he will make the culture sector central to the organisation's mission once more.
