Performing Arts
Children embrace Creative Partnerships
When poet Bob Beagrie joined other artists to collaborate with a group of boys at Tollesby special school in Middlesbrough,…
Musical Theatre joins International Festivals
One of the world’s oldest and most loved art forms is about to experience its first ever festival, an international…
Artists take refuge
Two years ago, Artistic Director Caryne Chapman Clark had a dream to start a theatrical organisation for refugee artists in…
Agriculture Crisis, or Culture Crisis?
The English countryside is not what it used to be. Faced with the reality the rural industry might soon be…
Cromarty comes alive to the sound of opera
It sounds like the setting for a quirky musical, a kind of 'Sound of Music', Scots-style, or a 'Brigadoon'. Picture…
Collision course
It's been a tumultous year for artistic directors worldwide, with some forced to resign because of their ambitious creative vision.…
Liverpool improvises on the music scene
Experimental improvised music continues to play on the fringes of musical society, but the number of festivals celebrating it is…
A stream of music, video and performance
Stream, a new cross-art performance from dramatic group, Optik, is described as ‘a relationship between music, technology and live action…
Passionate about New Music in UK
It’s just over two years since the launch of the PRS Foundation, an independent charity funding new music in the…
Performing arts targets teenage pregnancy issues
How do you get important social messages across to teenagers who are more inclined to vote for Big Brother evictions…