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Conservative theatre-making will kill the UK industry, says National’s director

Indhu Rubasingham calls in Jennie Lee lecture for renewed commitment to creative risk and new writing

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre director says decline in new writing risks ‘betrayal of William Shakespeare’

Indhu Rubasingham issued a stark warning to industry figures as she gave a landmark lecture

The Independent UK

UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers

“In any civilised community the arts … serious or comic, light or demanding, must occupy a central place. Their enjoyment should not be regarded as something remote from everyday life.” This was a central statement in the white paper (a statement of policy intent) issued 60 years ago by Jennie…

The Conversation

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The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again

Editorial: Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain’s first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton

The Guardian - UK

Lisa Nandy announces £270m fund for England’s ‘crumbling’ cultural infrastructure

Arts Everywhere Fund will improve cultural offerings in communities and on the curriculum

The Guardian - UK

Nandy to announce millions in funding for museums, libraries and arts venues

The announcement marks 60 years since the first ever arts white paper.

Evening Standard

Time to commit to culture and the arts

Letters: Antony Barlow recalls an earlier Labour government’s policy and Linda Karlsen says education is the key, while Sue Jackson is concerned by humanities cuts at universities

The Guardian - UK

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‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government

So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Jennie Lee; Fiddler on the Roof; Antony and Cleopatra – review

Groundbreaking Labour MP Jennie Lee is given her due in Mikron’s vibrant new touring show; the 60-year-old musical is an al fresco marvel; and Shakespeare finds new meaning through British Sign Language

The Guardian - UK

Nandy wasn’t supposed to head up culture, but could her level-headed approach be just the ticket?

After the Tory years of underfunding, BBC-baiting and culture wars, nothing less than the soul of the nation is in the surprise new minister’s hands, says Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows

The Guardian - UK

Richard Leonard shades Keir Starmer with message for Labour to 'lead its leaders'

A NEW video has been released about a radical socialist MP who denounced the leader of the Labour Party for his rejection of socialism and…

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