Lanre Bakare
Arts Reporter at The Guardian
Arts reporter @guardian 🇳🇬🇬🇧 We Were There coming 2025 / Over there now @ https://t.co/U1wx6v93ic
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
The playwright Caryl Churchill has pulled out of a project at the Donmar Warehouse, citing the organisation’s sponsorship by Barclays and the bank’s links to Israel. In a statement, Churchill, a longtime supporter of Palestinian rights, said that the London theatre should drop its association with the bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence companies supplying Israel. She said: “Theatres used to say they couldn’t manage without tobacco sponsorship, but they do.
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
A fundraising drive with a target of almost £3m is under way to prevent a Barbara Hepworth masterpiece from being sold to a private buyer and taken out of the UK. Art Fund, the charity that secures art for public collections while providing financial support for museums and the Hepworth Wakefield, is trying to secure the funds in order to keep Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) in the UK.
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
After bringing a blockbuster hologram version of Abba to a purpose-built venue in east London, Björn Ulvaeus’s next technological exploration is a musical that he’s written with the help of artificial intelligence. Ulvaeus told an audience at SXSW London that he was “three-quarters” of the way through writing a new musical which he has created with assistance from AI songwriting tools.
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
More than 2,500 figures from the arts including leaders at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company have signed an open letter stating that the government’s proposed changes to the Access to Work scheme could “risk disabled people being excluded from the workforce entirely”.
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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
Adrian Lester transforming into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch taking on Henry V and a lauded reboot of The Forsyte Saga are part of a new Royal Shakespeare Company season its co-artistic directors say represents a bold “global” vision for the institution. Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey announced the latest productions on Tuesday, saying the new programme was a celebration of globally inspired stories, “thrillingly told by the most exciting theatre artists of today”.
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