A performing arts school founded by Sir Paul McCartney has secured the right to design and grant its own degrees, in a move ...

Having worked for nearly 35 years in the theatre - subsidised and commercial - Joseph Smith, chief executive of Stage One*, ...

An organisation that manages more than 45 million works of music is to pay artists monthly rather than quarterly when their tracks are streamed on the likes of Spotify. PRS for Music, which represents ...

Playwright and actor NATASHA GORDON is to join Kiln Theatre's board of trustees, alongside top theatrical agent KATIE HAINES and composer MAIMUNA MEMON. The trio are part of a host of new trustees, ...

Ambitions to make Berwick's Maltings a flagship culture centre have won council approval, with the venue to gain two cinema screens and a revamped theatre. The £25.9 million project has secured the ...

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has named 37 heritage projects across England that will share in more than £15 million of funding aimed at preserving historic buildings as community spaces ...

CHRIS SUDWORTH is to join Hackney Empire this coming January as chief executive. It comes after KEITH KHAN exited as creative ...

For more than a decade Paraorchestra has been championing equity for disabled musicians. Its chief executive, Jonathan Harper ...

A teaching union has claimed students' interests and education have been put at risk at a performing arts college in ...

A councillor suspended by his local party amid a dispute over the proposed closure of Sunderland’s National Glass Centre (NGC ...

Dame Caroline Dinenage has called for live comedy to be recognised as a distinct and genuine artform, in a letter to Culture ...

Guildhall School of Music and Drama has unveiled a new scholarship that will provide talented singers from lower socio-economic backgrounds with the opportunity to study at the London-based ...