Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

It's THAT time of year! Here's my annual 2024 #AuditionList of first choice songs presented by auditionees for entry onto a BA or MA Musical Theatre degree at a London conservatoire this year.
PDF will be on my website this evening for free download. ingadavisrutter.com

Hire Kirsty, she’s great…

MP blames Toby Jones & ITV for not making #PostOfficeScandal drama sooner.

If you're struggling this time of year, there are people who can help 💗
Samaritans 116123
NSPH 0800 6895652
CALM 0800 585858
Refuge 0808 2000247
Rape Crisis 0808 5002222
MAL 0808 8010327
LGBT+ 0800 0119100
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“…if you made £65m pure profit for helping during the most acute national crisis, then you didn’t help – you helped yourself.”

‘A mega-mechanism for bonding’: why singing together does us good theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

Finally, University of the Year: @angliaruskin claims the top #THEAwards prize. Along with a number of other achievements, Anglia Ruskin’s transformational effect on its surrounding region particularly impressed the judges this year. Congratulations! 🏆

👑ARU is officially 'University of the Year'! 👑

We're over the moon to announce that we have claimed Times Higher Education's top prize - the biggest in UK Higher Education.

#ARUProud #THEAwards

On this day in 1963, Eric & Ernie met the Beatles (the show was transmitted on the 18th of April 1964).

'is this how desperate the Conservative Party is now? you're making stuff up!'

Victoria Derbyshire ripping apart Tory minister Michelle Donelan over the meat taxes thing #CPC23 #newsnight

We’re honoured to have been shortlisted for the University of the Year accolade at the @TimesHigherEd 2023 awards (aka the Oscars of the UK university sector! 🏆)

⭐This accolade celebrates ‘exceptional performance throughout the 2021-22 academic year’ and we’re #ARUProud to

My son Ralph Warman has written a thrilling score to this new musical, receiving its premiere public performance on Saturday 30th September 2023. Do come - it’s rather good!

Dark Isle: a new musical wansteadium.com/event/dark-isl…

Just Ben Stokes stuff. 🔥🔥🔥

#BBCCricket #Ashes

Government’s trans ‘guidance’ for schools further delayed as it breaches the Equality Act.

One of the best productions I’ve seen this year - and certainly the funniest - is coming back in September. Full cast still to be announced so I hope joseph millson is returning as well!

westendtheatre.com/182378/news/no…

They do things differently there … Berlin alone receives double the entire English arts funding. Berlin has a substantially smaller population than London.

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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our BRAND NEW Theatre Festival! 🎭

Join us from July 18 - 22 for an unforgettable week of shows and new collaborative work, created and brought to life by our postgraduate students.

Check out the full roster of shows below 👇

I've seldom heard about anything nastier than Robert Jenrick's order to paint over the pictures in the asylum centre. Cold, cruel, the act of a soul that's shrivelled and mean to its core. How can he look in the mirror? Utter moral emptiness.

Musical Theatre singers who are in a place where they might be happy singing some songs from a new show about badass women at a daytime showcase in London for travel expenses, a nice lunch and my eternal servitude… please place a hand in the air?

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