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

“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…

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

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

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

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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 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

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…