Wilton's Music Hall in east London has been given a grant of £1.85 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which marks the final step in its fundraising campaign to preserve the venue. Th…
The Menagerie Theatre Company in Cambridge is to expand its new writing festival, bringing its shows to London, Colchester and Bury St Edmunds this summer. The Hotbed festival will run at Lo…
Comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to feature as part of the Battersea Arts Centre's summer season of Edinburgh preview shows. Lee will perform his new piece Much A-Stew About Not…
The UK City of Culture 2017 shortlist has revealed that Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay are all in the running for the title. A total of 11 bids were considered from cities including…
Cultural organisations are currently experiencing an "arts emergency" and are in need of a survival strategy led by the government, shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has said. Speaking…
An international festival with an overwhelming domestic audience, Bergen is looking to the UK to develop a global reach, its artistic director tells Nicola Merrifield
London's Young Vic Theatre and entertainment union BECTU are in talks to negotiate a new structure for the venue's front of house staff. The venue is planning to create four new full-time bo…
Theatre leaders should lobby the government for mandatory consultation on new developments close to venues to stop their operations from being threatened, Nimax Theatres chief executive Nica…
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is calling upon arts organisations to contribute to a survey that will investigate how the European Union affects the UK. In her written statement…
The Gate Theatre in north London has announced its new season will include three productions from American writers George Brant, Ethan Lipton and Dan O'Brien. Entitled These American Lives, …
Theatres in the UK are operating within working models that are potentially "corrupting", leading to productions that fails to represent contemporary society, Lyric Hammersmith artistic dire…
London venues such as the Barbican, Sadler's Wells and Shakespeare's Globe are among 200 cultural organisations that will take part in the first UK-wide arts festival for families. Regional …
The Lyric Hammersmith will present an eight-month season of 'secret' repertory work at its venue from this autumn while it continues its £16.5 million capital project, which includes a ne…
Ashley Zhangazha has received this year's Ian Charleson Award, which is given for an outstanding performance in a classical role by an actor under the age of 30. He was singled out for his a…
Wilton's Music Hall in London has raised £600,000 in match funding, which means it can now submit an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the remaining money needed to carry out r…
Shakespeare's Globe in London has announced it will hold open auditions for its new children's company this July. Comprising boy and girl performers aged 12 to 16 years old, the Globe Young …
Arts Council England chairman Peter Bazalgette has praised the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for its negotiations with the Treasury that have resulted in an expected cut of around …
Playwright Martin Crimp and composer George Benjamin, the creators of opera Written on Skin, are to collaborate again on a new full-scale work for the Royal Opera in London. Due to premiere …
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport will receive an 8% cut to its budget for 2015 to 2016 after a deal was struck with the Treasury, according to press reports. It is expected that...
Rob Hayes has won this year's Tom Erhardt Award for up and coming writers. The £5,000 prize "celebrates and supports new writing for the stage by providing grants to playwrights who have …
Almeida Theatre and Headlong's co-production of Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood is to transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London this summer. The show, which is directed by Lyndsey Turner, w…
Theatre and marketing managers across venues in Kent have joined forces to form an alliance to share audience data and work together on national campaigns. The Kent Theatre and Marketing Man…
Battersea Arts Centre has launched a new touring scheme that will visit parts of the UK with low cultural engagement, over the next three years. Led by the south London venue, the Collaborat…
Vanessa Kirby and Kyle Soller are to join John Heffernan in the National Theatre production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II being staged at the venue this summer. Kirby, who has previousl…
Productions based on Shakespeare's Othello and Henry V are to be staged as part of the Unicorn Theatre's autumn season. Othello: the Remix, which featured in Shakespeare's Globe's festival o…