The Latest Breaking News from Arts Council England

The theatre company has announced it will be the anchor tenant for the new space opening in 2026

Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints

Bristol City Council is exploring its future with Bristol Beacon ahead of the reopening

The ENO will be able to keep its London Coliseum base while moving headquarters as part of the Government’s levelling-up agenda

Somebody, somewhere, must want an opera company, right? That seems to be the thinking behind the latest agreement struck between ENO (fighting to stay alive) and Arts Council England (fighting to save face).

It comes after the ACE announced plans in November to remove the opera company as a national portfolio organisation.

There are fundamental shortcomings in how “diversity” is conceived and practised in cultural institutions. The problem may be that the term itself undermines the complexities of the different and intersecting inequalities. That was the key finding of my latest research which also found that, in the context of race and…

Venue that helped launch careers of many actors forced to close after losing £1.8m Arts Council England grant

Member polls before cabinet meetings are among the junked pledges