Lynette Shanbury appointed to lead Polka Theatre
She will join the children’s theatre as Executive Director in August as it gears up for a major redevelopment.
She will join the children’s theatre as Executive Director in August as it gears up for a major redevelopment.
Tax relief can be a lifeline for many arts organisations, so why are so many smaller theatre companies and independent producers m…
A group of actors with Down’s Syndrome travelled to Lesotho in southern Africa to help change attitudes to people with learn…
Five London venues have jointly hosted a one-woman show – and then pooled the box office takings. Kaya Stanley-Money explain…
Changing the role of the box office at Vancouver’s summer Shakespeare festival from an operational one to a marketing one re…
Hull Truck Theatre’s pop-up box offices in local supermarkets sell tickets to new audiences and also create valuable communi…
As new technologies open up the possibilities for creativity in stage performance, a new children’s theatre production showc…
With the Mayflower Theatre recently listed by the Sunday Times as one of the best organisations to work for, Robin Hancox explains…
Presenting theatre in pubs and social clubs can help breathe life into communities and engage non-arts audiences. Rod Dixon explai…
Neil Beddow explains how acta in Bristol overcomes the challenges of engaging migrant and refugee communities in theatre making.&n…
Working with a children’s hospice has allowed Birmingham Hippodrome to make its productions accessible to families who might…
Mandy Precious considers herself lucky to have discovered the arts, but are the next generation getting the same chances she did?
As a small but fast-growing touring theatre company run by part-time staff, Hubbub Theatre Company has benefited from appointing a…
Artistic Director of Théâtre Volière Natasha Wood describes how death ‘snapping at her heels’ propels her on. That…
Has panto become culturally inappropriate, racist even? Oh yes it has, calls out Daniel York.
New research found audiences in rural Lincolnshire are hungry for culturally diverse theatre and dance, but the provision isn&rsqu…
When Clod Ensemble decided to work on a completely different scale and tour a one-woman show to rural Scotland, it was faced with…
Rural touring can be exhausting and unpredictable, but the key to making it a rewarding, rich experience is finding the right peop…
Tax relief has enabled many theatre companies to take creative risks and invest more in productions without the fear of financial…
Purging inactive subscribers from Chichester Festival Theatre’s email list has helped improve the effectiveness of its marke…
When prisoners are actually requesting more arts activities, why are we not giving them what they want, asks Jess Thorpe.
Male prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm may be apprehensive about signing up for a theatre project, but some finish Geese T…
Helping prisoners devise and perform a piece of children’s theatre for their families may help reduce re-offending rates, bu…
When a production of Hamlet promised to be the hot ticket of the year, RADA embraced technology to make the box office experience…