Not the usual suspects: thoughts from the house venue network meeting
Catherine Love recaps on our fifth venue network meeting: Audience development is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the arts. The aim of the …More »
house: Blog
Guest Blog: Dumbshow talk small-scale touring
In our latest blog, artistic director of Dumbshow Michael Bryher talks about the challenges the company have faced touring The Pearl on the small-scale. This autumn we will …More »
Greenhouse update – Cornerstone and Gulbenkian co-production
In our newest blog post, Miranda Lawrence, the Arts Development Officer at the Cornerstone in Didcot, gives an update of how their greenhouse funded R&D went, and how …More »
Returning to Longwave: Chris Goode talks recommission and touring
Ahead of his autumn tour with house, award-winning theatre maker Chris Goode talks to journalist Catherine Love about revisiting the 2006 production of Longwave, and how it feels …More »
new recommission award
about house house is a programming initiative delivered by Farnham Maltings and funded by Arts Council England designed to reinvigorate the theatre ecology of East and South East …More »
September news from house
Welcome to the September edition of the house newsletter. In this month’s update we highlight some great opportunities, recap on our online discussions and take a look at …More »
Fringe perspectives: house’s festival experience 2014
As part of house’s annual trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 Katie and Heather attended the festival alongside 40 venue programmers from within the network. In our …More »
get rid of the exclusion clause
Gavin Stride, Director of Farnham Maltings and house, shares his thoughts on exclusion causes in regional venues, and what the future could hold if these were removed. …More »
Is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe killing touring? – Why the world’s largest arts festival may be bad for the UK’s arts ecology
Each year house – a network of over 150 venues which spans from north Norfolk to the edges of the Kent coast – tours over twenty contemporary theatre …More »
August news from house
Welcome to the August edition of the house newsletter. This month we’re busy finalising our schedules for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, along with putting the final touches to …More »
show business
On 19 June at the National Theatre, Farnham Maltings produced a one-day symposium in partnership with UK Theatre, ITC and Stage One. show business explored how the commercial …More »
Guest blog: Thoughts from the UPstream Lab by Matthew Linley
Matthew Linley from Eastern Angles shares his notes and thoughts from the UPstream Lab day at South Hill Park in Bracknell. At the recent #upstreamlab Coney Island’s …More »
Better Than Live?
Five years after the National Theatre started broadcasting shows through NT Live, it looks unlikely that live theatre screenings will be disappearing any time soon. If anything, they …More »
Are we losing the spectacle?
Some of my closest friends – who would absolutely call themselves “theatregoers” – haven’t seen shows where there are less than 500 seats in the auditorium. And that’s …More »
July news from house
Welcome to the July edition of the house newsletter. This month we celebrate collaboration, with the announcement of the first cohort of greenhouse projects, emerging artist opportunities with …More »