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Arts funding

January 2024

  • A scene from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan at London Coliseum on 5 October 2023

    ENO strike: staff say they are political ‘pawns’ and fear being forced out

    Musicians say many feel they have no choice but to act over cuts and may have to leave industry altogether
  • A scene from English National Opera’s production of Blue by Jeanine Tesori at London Coliseum in April 2023.

    English National Opera employees to strike over cuts

    Underfunding of Manchester move blamed as Musicians’ Union announces first full strike in 44 years

    • What next for woke ITV after the Post Office drama? Danny Dyer v the sewage scandal?

      Stewart Lee

    • ‘A national emergency’: UK theatres fear closure after more local funding cuts

    • Suffolk county council announces 100% cut to arts funding

December 2023

  • Leo Pearlman

    ‘Let’s have a Sunderland Barbie’: Leo Pearlman on his plan to build a new Hollywood on Wearside

  • ‘We have a non-traditional audience who are very supportive of our work’ … Cheryl Martin, new AD of Red Ladder Theatre Company.

    ‘Red Ladder shares a lot of my DNA’: radical Yorkshire theatre company’s new leader Cheryl Martin

  • A choir master and two rows of boys from King’s College Cambridge choir, all in robes, in front of tall lit candles

    Britain’s losing talent: US choirs poised to lead as school cuts hit supply of UK singers

  • Balancing act … a scene from English National Opera’s production of The Rhinegold at the Coliseum, in London, which will cease to be the company’s base.

    Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review

  • Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre’s artistic directors?

  • Is soggy old Manchester having a cultural buzz or trading on past glories?

  • ‘This could be really interesting’: Manchester and English National Opera may yet suit each other

  • Self-insemination artist ‘vindicated’ after settling legal case over withdrawn Australian government funding

November 2023

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Starmer's path to power
    Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts

    Charlotte Higgins
    Music, theatre and art have been crushed by years of Tory cuts. They need to be nurtured again with purpose and with pride, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream at Glyndebourne.

    The Guardian view on touring opera: thwarted in its mission to bring music to the people

    Editorial: It would be a tragedy if funding cuts reinforced the myth that a varied and vital art form is simply a pastime for the metropolitan elite
  • Luke Turner

    Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain

    Luke Turner
    I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner

October 2023

  • The interior of Aviva Studios in Manchester, which cost more than £240m.

    A great divide in the arts in Manchester

  • Andy Arnold

    Nae Expectations: Andy Arnold on a gallus Dickens, Glasgow’s Tron and ‘catastrophic’ arts cuts

  • Aviva Studios, on the site of the former Granada television studios, in Manchester.

    Aviva Studios opens in Manchester with Danny Boyle dance extravaganza

  • Martyn Brabbins rehearsing with English National Opera Orchestra at the Henry Wood Hall in London.

    ENO’s music director resigns over proposed cuts to musical staff positions

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