£35m for theatre capital investment projects
Both the Ambassadors Theatre Group and Arts Council England have announced the details of major capital investment funding.
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Producing programme targets local audiences
The Theatre Chipping Norton is launching a two-year program of home grown drama. The move to embark on a producing program was pro…
Equipped for the challenge
Victoria Aspden explains how the EducationLive event is persuading teachers of the value of bringing school groups to the theatre,…
Moving in
Earlier this year Unlimited Theatre became the resident company at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP). Jon Spooner, Unlimited Thea…
Explore and discover the arts
Marina Castledine explains how the Arts Award is reaching out to more young people
An academic impact
An arts partnership linking THEATRE IS… with a new Academy school will enable the impact of arts participation on educationa…
Digital intelligence
At the ‘Shift Happens’ conference, Dave Moutrey gave us a glimpse of the digitally enabled organisation of the future
Into the light
Lesley Anne Rose describes Stellar Quines’s journey from analogue to digital – and the bright light at the end of the tunnel
The third dimension
Kerry Michael and Jessica Kranish explain how audiences are being engaged through digital media in Theatre Royal Stratford East’…
Room for improvement in Scotland’s theatre sector
Review finds that artistic strengths are counterbalanced by some structural weaknesses in Scottish theatre
A change of scenery
Trina Jones explains how Birmingham Rep has risen to the challenge of being homeless
Hackney hot pot
From pop-up to permanent, Jay Miller explains what it was like opening a theatre in Hackney Wick, alongside poverty, diversity and…
Theatrical partnership revived in Bristol
Good news for students as the Old Vic Theatre School and Bristol Old Vic adopt a more integrated model
Welsh venues set to become ‘leaner and greener’
Forty-two arts venues in Wales are set to become ‘greener and leaner’ thanks to a new initiative to help them reduce t…
Creative therapy
The creative arts can open up emotions and enable self-reflection. Sabine Sandberger shares her experiences of running a therapeut…
When you hear their voice
Bruce Wall gives a personal account of a prison-based theatre project in Malta that turned into a sell-out show
Drama with dementia
Lowri Evans explains how the Library Theatre Company is engaging older people with memory loss through storytelling
Improvising mathematics
Alex Fradera and Edmund Harriss explain how theatrical techniques can help improve communication skills, inspire collaboration and…
The art of playfulness
Play is a fundamental part of artistic projects that aim to improve the lives of disabled people, says Ciara Brennan
There’s magic in it
Theatre has the potential to create profound and lasting wellbeing in young people. Emily Hunka explains how GLYPT is making a dif…
An opportunity for adventure
Sherman Cymru recently underwent an 18-month redevelopment. Chris Ricketts describes how collaborative work opened new doors for t…
Splitting the risk
Annabel Turpin explains how a new partnership initiative is enabling three venues to provide a platform for emerging companies and…
On yer bike
The National Theatre of Scotland’s (NTS) first foray into carbon-lite theatre will see an entire cast and crew cycle a 300-m…
A little local difficulty
Reports in the national press that the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) is preparing to close due to funding difficul…
