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Manchester theatre head: Easter warnings are ‘frightening’
“The big frustration is that it’s really difficult to find a logic in all of this,” says Roy Alexander Weise, joint artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, of the current situation facing his sector. Read my full … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged culture, interview, manchester, play, racism, Roy Alexander Weise, royal exchange, telegraph, theatre, tier 3, tier 4
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s vaccine joy: ‘Phantom will return in June’
Today’s news about the UK approving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is a hugely positive step for the theatre industry, believes Andrew Lloyd Webber. “Of course, I’m slightly biased towards the Oxford vaccine, since I’ve been on that myself – and had no side effects whatsoever. … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged andrew lloyd webber, arts, BioNTech, carrie hope fletcher, cinderella, covid, culture, interview, london palladium, musical theatre, musicals, opening, oxford vaccine, pfizer, phantom, telegraph, the phantom of the opera, theatre, trial, vaccine, west end
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‘The vaccine is a start, but it’s not a magic wand’
Is the very welcome news that the Pfizer vaccine could be available next week, following UK approval, the light at the end of a long tunnel for the decimated arts industry? A swift vaccine roll-out might mean that venues could reopen earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged arts, audience, capacity, classical music, concert, covid, culture, interview, John Gilhooly, london, music, musician, pfizer, telegraph, tier system, vaccine, wigmore hall
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Public cash for billionaires? The questions hanging over Oliver Dowden’s Cultural Recovery Fund
This week saw some succour for the arts. The award of £257 million in grants to British organisations has finally been announced. This money will come from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and it’s designed to tide businesses over … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged art, arts, arts council, boris johnson, comedy, coronavirus, culture, David Ross, dcms, freelancer, freelancers, Frog and Bucket, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, img artists, london palladium, mission mars, money, music, nevill holt opera, oliver dowden, pandemic, Paradigm Agency, reopening, rescue fund, rescue package, secret cinema, select committee, social distancing, telegraph, theatre, west end, wigmore hall
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The government’s attitude to Fatima and the arts will put them on the wrong side of history – they just don’t know it yet
The latest tone-deaf salvo from our government to the creative sector is a CyberFirst campaign (belatedly removed after an outcry), one part of which depicts a ballet dancer called Fatima. The text reads: “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber (she just doesn’t know it … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged ad, advert, advertisement, arts, ballet, ballet dancer, campaign, culture, cyber, cyber first, dance, dancer, dancing, dido harding, economy, fatima, funding, government, independent, industry, oliver dowden, pandemic, rescue package, retrain, test and trace, theatre
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Theatre in crisis: ‘British culture is world-beating – why leave us behind?’
The Government’s new jobs plan has been met with despair – and fury – from many in the arts world. “Theatre has been viable for thousands of years,” points out leading producer Sonia Friedman. “Yesterday’s announcement from the Chancellor that our industry is … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged arts, chancellor, culture, equity, funding, furlough, jez bond, job loss, jobs, julian bird, orange tree theatre, park theatre, paul miller, Rishi Sunak, royal court, sonia friedman, the telegraph, theatre, vicky featherstone
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Georgian architecture, Impressionists in London, and Ed Miliband
On my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: By George Pablo Bronstein explores our abiding love of Georgian architecture in a new RIBA exhibition Don’t miss: Rebel rebel Tate Britain views London through the eyes of the Impressionists Commuter … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Journalism
Tagged architecture, art, article, artist, book, building, commute, commuter, culture, ed miliband, exhibition, fiction, gallery, georgian, heather the totality, home, house, impressionist, impressionists in london, london, mad men, magazine, matthew weiner, monet, moveto, moveto town and country, museum, neo-georgian, novel, pablo bronstein, podcast, property, read, reasons to be cheerful, riba, tate britain, visit london
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BWW Interview: Madani Younis
The Bush Theatre’s Artistic Director discusses its redevelopment and future plans. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged art, artist, arts council, black lives black words, black lives matter, broadwayworld, building, bush theatre, children, community, culture, diversity, education, government, interview, kids, local council, london, madani younis, new, play, project, reopening, schools, shepherd's bush, subsidy, theatre, tickets, work, writer, young, youth
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New Design Museum, Caravaggio and Zadie Smith
On my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: New designs The Design Museum reopens with a permanent collection and the Designs of the Year Don’t miss: Life and soul The National Gallery explores Caravaggio’s influence on his contemporaries Commuter corner Zadie … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Journalism
Tagged actual fluency podcast, art, book, caravaggio, commute, commuter, culture, design, design museum, designs of the year, exhibition, fiction, kensington high street, language, learn, london, moveto, moveto town and country, national gallery, new, novel, november, painting, picks, read, reopening, swing time, zadie smith
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