Amanda Parker

The theatre industry has a responsibility to respond to the recent UK riots, says Amanda Parker

Seventy seven percent of England’s population attended an arts event in 2023 – as others kick back for the summer, our sector is working to make everyone’s kick back memorable, says Amanda Parker

Progress rests on finding shared and common interest, even where approaches seem to differ, says Amanda Parker

The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The School for Scandal kicks off just as news lands that RADA is reviewing the future of Restoration comedy teaching in its undergraduate course

In a landscape that has far too few organisations that make work by, with and for diverse communities, failing to put those organisations in influential places seems like a missed opportunity

As higher education arts courses face continued uncertainty thanks to Tory election proposals, the sector must tackle the reasons, such as low pay, that culture is seen as a precarious career choice

Women working in arts and culture face the double blow of the gender pay gap and the cultural sector pay gap, which continues to widen. Sector-wide transparency might go some way to achieving equity

In the face of cuts, training and development opportunities are becoming increasingly squeezed, and the lack of a national picture means it risks becoming an afterthought, says Amanda Parker

Amanda Parker reflects on the Budget announcement, and argues that the sector needs to look to bordering countries for collective survival

In the final piece of The D Word series exploring diversity in theatre, Amanda Parker investigates how polarised debates on issues from gender to race to freedom of expression are influencing the sector’s efforts to be more inclusive and how the UK’s increasingly prominent culture wars are affecting the industry and the workforce