Melbourne Symphony Orchestra appears to have doubled down in a brewing legal battle with the concert pianist Jayson Gillham, whose performance was cancelled after a dedication on stage to Palestinian journalists who had died in the Gaza conflict. The MSO was given a 5pm deadline last Thursday to respond to a letter by Marque Lawyers […]
Ministers will examine surge ticket pricing in a review after the cost of tickets for Oasis’s concerts more than doubled while on sale, the culture secretary has confirmed. Lisa Nandy said she thought the inflated price of tickets was “incredibly depressing” as standard tickets were increased from £148 to £355 on the website Ticketmaster. The […]
Ian McKellen says he has recuperated from the broken bones he suffered after falling from the stage in June, but is still emotionally recovering from the incident.The 85-year-old actor told the BBC he planned to continue working after being forced to take off the rest of the year because of the fall.The double Oscar nominee […]
Turn up the air con – it’s getting hot in Venice. As the festival sweltered under a prolonged heatwave, the temperature was raised still further when George Clooney and Brad Pitt arrived on the Lido.The actors and longstanding friends, who have not appeared at the festival together since 2008, have accumulated such a powerful status […]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra appears to have doubled down in a brewing legal battle with the concert pianist Jayson Gillham, whose performance was cancelled after a dedication on stage to Palestinian journalists who had died in the Gaza conflict. The MSO was given a 5pm deadline last Thursday to respond to a letter by Marque Lawyers […]
Ministers will examine surge ticket pricing in a review after the cost of tickets for Oasis’s concerts more than doubled while on sale, the culture secretary has confirmed. Lisa Nandy said she thought the inflated price of tickets was “incredibly depressing” as standard tickets were increased from £148 to £355 on the website Ticketmaster. The […]
Ian McKellen says he has recuperated from the broken bones he suffered after falling from the stage in June, but is still emotionally recovering from the incident.The 85-year-old actor told the BBC he planned to continue working after being forced to take off the rest of the year because of the fall.The double Oscar nominee […]
Turn up the air con – it’s getting hot in Venice. As the festival sweltered under a prolonged heatwave, the temperature was raised still further when George Clooney and Brad Pitt arrived on the Lido.The actors and longstanding friends, who have not appeared at the festival together since 2008, have accumulated such a powerful status […]
The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will create a cultural landscape that is whiter and posher, according to one of the UK’s leading black British theatre directors.Tinuke Craig, who has worked on productions including the Donmar Warehouse’s Trouble in Butetown, said the current crop of black British theatre talent was […]
‘I really wanted to do a book of nude self-portraits,” says Alec Soth. “For better or worse, I’m just an inward-looking photographer.” So why didn’t he? “Photography,” he explains, “means going out into the world and interacting with it.” That is certainly what has made Soth such a revered photographer. The American has shot naked […]
The National Trust said its visitor numbers jumped by 5% in the last year with people still prepared to spend money on a day out despite the cost of living crisis.But the charity’s annual report, released on Monday, revealed changing visitor spending patterns.Membership numbers dropped by 89,000 to 2.62 million in 2023-24, as more people […]
Artists have been urged to take a stand against “extortionate” dynamic pricing for concerts after Oasis tickets were hiked up to more than double their original price.Fans of the Manchester band expressed their shock and anger after queueing online for hours only to find that the price of the £135 standing tickets had risen to […]
Sales of Oasis music have soared since the band announced it was re-forming for a series of live gigs next summer, with vinyl and CD sales up more than 500% in the past week at HMV. The music chain, which operates almost 130 high street stores under the HMV and Fopp brands in the UK […]
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