Features
Doing the Proms
The Proms are on again this summer, so Meabh Ritchie takes a look at the rules and regulations of concert…
Career Profile: Pierre Picton, the man who makes Chitty fly
Pierre Picton began his career as Pierre the Clown in 1954 and is now the last surviving clown from Bertram…
Best Dressed in Show
Want to get into wardrobe? Can cope with anything from wetsuits to wedding dresses? Arts Hub slips into something more…
Artist's Voice: Paul Kahn — The Disabled Sensibility
Something remarkable is going on in the world. Disability arts festivals seem to be springing up all over. Add to…
Worse in the west
If you think arts funding is bad on the mainland then you should hear what Arts Council Northern Ireland has…
Telling stories: Pamela Marre
Storyteller Pamela Marre has always been surrounded by her Jewish family stories and began working with them in experimental theatre…
Ying String Quartet in Tod Machover’s '…but not simpler…'
The spring concert season has brought two intriguing examples of enterprising ensembles intent on exploding these preset expectations and inviting…
Call me Shorty
The movie script that changed my life wasn’t Howard Koch’s Casablanca. And it wasn’t Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. Neither was it…
Does this man have the best job in the arts world?
As the Manchester International Festival gets set to change the face of the arts with two weeks of world premieres…
Below the belt
The Government's proposed changes to work permit legislation could be the final nail in the coffin of goodwill between artists…