Regional theatre: election 2010 roundtable

ELECTION 2005 Ian Brown, artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds assesses Labour's record in relation to theatre and the arts and looks to the future. Dominic Cavendish quizzes

WHAT NEXT...? Excerpt from the Young Vic's two-hour seminar, attended by 500 members of the arts industry, exploring the future of arts funding in the face of the new era of cut-backs. Keynote speeches from Young Vic artistic director David Lan, Jude...

REGIONAL THEATRE: BASINGSTOKE John Adams, the artistic director of the Haymarket, Basingstoke, tells Dominic Cavendish about the campaign against the theatre's imminent closure.

DIRECTOR’S TALK: MAX STAFFORD-CLARK Out of Joint’s Artistic Director talks to Chris Campbell, the Royal Court’s Literary Manager, about his new book Journal of the Plague Year; part personal memoir, part “howl of rage” over Arts Council Eng...