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ATG, Brits on Broadway and an advert for subsidy
Ambassador Theatre Group’s increasing dominance of the UK industry can be a divisive subject in theatre circles, but news this week that the group has made its first big strides into the US market should be…
Letters of the week
Verdict on ITV’s Oliviers coverage, Maria Miller in the firing line, who represents the theatre-goer and joy at Lacy/Samuel French collection finding a home
Olivier Awards – a view from the stalls
Not that you could tell it from the ITV highlights, but the 37th Laurence Olivier Awards were dominated by two things: public funding and the looming spectre of its removal. From Society of London Theatre…
Some quotable quotes, and the strangest review of the week
Writing this blog every day, week in and week out, I have a valuable platform for my own views. But sometimes its worth repeating the views of others entirely. Today is one of those days! Arts…
SOLT’s Mark Rubinstein says economic case for arts already proven
Mark Rubinstein, president of the Society of London Theatre, has said that the theatre industry can make the economic case to the government “100 times over, in so many ways,” to justify public funding because…
Short Shorts 82: Placing an economic value on the arts, previews and photography
The economic value of the arts and its cabinet minister On Wednesday, the government’s culture secretary Maria Miller, a former marketing and advertising executive appointed to the cabinet last September, made her first public speech…
How should we solve the funding problem, Maria?
I find it hard to believe that anyone can have been particularly surprised by the line taken by culture secretary Maria Miller in her speech at the British Museum this week. The economy has been…
Maria Miller calls for arts to focus on economic case for funding
Culture secretary Maria Miller has called on the arts to focus on making an economic argument for continued government investment in the sector. In a keynote speech delivered at the British Museum today, Miller emphasised…
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her…
Poor Mrs Miller. It’s not going to be much of a Christmas break for her, what with everything she has on her plate. There’s the broadband thing, Leveson, the women bishops (because she’s equality minister…
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