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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Oct 2023
A major cultural attraction has opened its doors in Manchester, with the £210m Aviva Studios representing the largest investment in a national cultural project since the opening of Tate Modern in 2000
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Oct 2023
Alex Book, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Arcade – The Creative Reality Company, explains how attractions and cultural institutions can make use of immersive technologies to reach new audiences
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Jul 2023
Marvel’s ‘Rogers: The Musical’ has been brought to life with a limited time run of the musical seen in Hawkeye now on show at Disney California Adventure Park
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Jul 2023
Abu Dhabi’s culture and tourism board has revealed ambitious plans to grow its tourism economy to 24 million visitors a year
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 30 Jun 2023
Virgin Voyages has partnered with Jennifer Lopez to launch Jen A.I. a new tool that enables guests to receive personalised invitations from the pop superstar
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Jun 2023
Morph has arrived in London for a wheelchair accessible public art trail, with the event to run until August in an effort to raise money for the children’s charity Whizz Kidz
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 Jun 2023
A museum in the Netherlands has come under fire for cultural appropriation, after using the likeness of American rapper Nas’ in a Tutankhamun-inspired bust
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 31 May 2023
The Royal Commission for the ancient Saudi Arabian city of AlUla has approved plans for a new eco-luxury destination with its own museum
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 23 May 2023
UN experts have expressed alarm after three people evicted from homes to make way for Saudi Arabia’s The Line, now face the death penalty
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 25 Apr 2023
A new outdoor art gallery, inspired by annual arts and music festival Burning Man, has opened on the Las Vegas strip
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Apr 2023
A first-of-its kind offering will make guests feel like they’re at the heart of the action during live UFC events, with Cosm’s ‘shared reality’ spectacles set to transform the way we watch live sporting events
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Apr 2023
A major museum dedicated to William Shakespeare will be built on the foundations of the theatre where the famed playwright hosted some of his first works
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 18 Apr 2023
An official stage production based on Stranger Things will open at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End later this year
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 08 Mar 2023
The Millennium Forum theatre in Derry has become the first Irish cultural venue to achieve Makaton Friendly Status
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Jan 2023
Attractions.io has teamed up with SSA Group to provide a fully digital experience for visitors to cultural attractions in 2023
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 18 Jan 2023
After a difficult few years the museum sector is showing promising signs of recovery with several exciting projects set to open this year. Here are 14 of 2023’s most anticipated museum openings
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 09 Jan 2023
The virtual band worked with Google to host two first-of-their-kind AR experiences in New York and London to promote their new single
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Jan 2023
A Ukrainian activist who tried to take a Banksy work from Kyiv faces a 12-year prison sentence for an act he says was intended to support the work of the country’s army
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Dec 2022
The Museum of Sex is expanding, with the New York attraction announcing plans to open a new Miami location in the spring
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Dec 2022
Culture, heritage and sport sites are set to receive £4.5m over the next three years to support actions in the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 05 Dec 2022
Country music icon Dolly Parton has revealed plans to open a self-dedicated museum in Tennessee that could form part of a wider cultural complex
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 30 Nov 2022
Audiences around the world will soon get to see record-breaking stunt performers pushing the boundaries of what is possible with Guinness World Records and Mirage Entertainment Design announcing the launch of an exciting new show
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 10 Oct 2022
Russia’s lethal barrage of strikes against Ukrainian cities this week has seen a number of cultural sites in the capital of Kyiv hit
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 03 Oct 2022
The Louvre is among a number of French cultural institutions and landmarks turning their lights off in an attempt to cut soaring energy costs
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 08 Sep 2022
Progress slow and hampered by financial woes, but museum soldiers on with hopes of a full reopening in 2027
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 31 Aug 2022
The US$69m addition furthers the Queens Museum mission to bring arts and education to a diverse and international community
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 29 Aug 2022
As well as multi-sensory, playful and colourful installations, the attraction has a café, bar and retail store
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 26 Aug 2022
Changes to the 2007 definition of a museum reflect industry’s more inclusive and sustainable aims and roles
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 12 Aug 2022
Blurring the lines between an experiential art gallery, interactive theme park and detailed film set, Wake the Tiger is a new attraction that just opened its doors in Bristol, UK. We spoke to co-founder Graham MacVoy about the new attraction, dubbed the world’s first ‘Amazement Park’
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Jul 2022
A £38m cultural development in the north of England is set to open its doors this weekend, with the debut of the astonishing Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 08 Jul 2022
An official stage production based on Stranger Things is in the works after the series became Netflix’s first English-language show to be viewed for more than one billion hours
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 07 Jul 2022
Glastonbury founder, Michael Eavis has been commemorated with a specially-commissioned portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. He has also been named as a patron of Somerset’s Radstock Museum
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Jul 2022
The inaugural Wide Skies and Butterflies festival has been axed due to rising production costs and low ticket sales, the event’s organisers have said
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 27 Jun 2022
Unesco has verified more than 150 cultural sites in Ukraine have been either partially or completely destroyed since the Vladimir Putin-led invasion by Russia
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Jun 2022
Pop supergroup ABBA need to earn £140m from ticket sales of their London residency Voyage to cover the cost of the virtual spectacle
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Jun 2022
The concert series, the second such partnership between Sofar Sounds and Tiqets, will see artists perform at iconic attractions in London and San Francisco.
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 25 May 2022
Construction has started on the King Salman Park’s Royal Arts Complex, which once complete will act as a cultural hub for the Saudi capital of Riyadh
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 May 2022
‘The Pop District’ from The Andy Warhol Museum will feature a larger cultural hub for live music, events, public art, expanded programming and a home for creative workplace development
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 02 Feb 2022
With so many big things coming in the year ahead, we’ve rounded up all the key events taking place this year. Welcome to your attractions calendar for 2022.
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 28 Jan 2022
A football-themed opera is set to be staged in Surrey, with the cultural spectacular to be broadcast on Sky Arts and NowTV
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 12 Jan 2022
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced US$24.7m in grants for 208 humanities projects across the US
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 07 Jan 2022
Reanimated and ready to take a bite out of its visitors, the former Camelot Theme Park is being resurrected as an immersive cinematic zombie experience
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Jan 2022
An additional £30m in emergency funding has been made available through the UK’s Culture Recovery Fund to support museums, cinemas, theatres and heritage organisations with the impact of the Omicron variant this winter
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Dec 2021
Stéphane Lefebvre is taking the step up from COO to take the reins as president and CEO of the Cirque du Soleil entertainment brand
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 26 Nov 2021
The charity launches Energise Young Minds to help alleviate “perfect storm” of disruptions affecting young people and the cultural sector
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 23 Nov 2021
The Moscow contemporary art museum unveils SANAA’s designs for the new Hexagon building, a “thoughtful and sensitive” interpretation of the historic site
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 10 Nov 2021
The K-pop music arena plans to host some 190 concerts per year
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Sep 2021
Netflix will create a “unique universe” themed around Dahl’s beloved children’s stories
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 23 Sep 2021
Starting in October De Grote Efteling Koekoekshow will tour both the Netherlands and Belgium
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Sep 2021
The British Council is scaling back its work in more than 20 countries due to a pandemic funding shortfall
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 14 Sep 2021
Architects Stufish have been tasked with creating a pop-up arena for iconic Swedish band ABBA’s virtual comeback in London
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Sep 2021
Covid concerns have sent Burning Man into the VR realm, though an unofficial festival has appeared in its place, with 10,000 people gathering in the desert for ‘Renegade Burn’
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 Sep 2021
The Reading and Leeds festivals recently hosted pop-up clinics for visitors to get their COVID-19 vaccination between acts
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Aug 2021
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says he’s optimistic that the iconic festival will be able to return in 2022
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 05 Aug 2021
Health experts are expecting to see a surge in COVID-19 infections in Chicago after 100,000 attendees gathered in Grant Park for the festival
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 23 Jul 2021
Glastonbury’s Equinox mini-festival will no longer go ahead, with co-founder Emily Eavis blaming the cancellation on ‘a number of reasons’
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 20 Jul 2021
Major British theatre chain ATG has backed the move to minimise the spread of COVID-19
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Jul 2021
Sport and culture, the spirit of Ancient Greece and the thousands of missing spectators for this year’s Olympics will be celebrated in a series of installations celebrating the event in Tokyo
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Jul 2021
Forced to close for over a year, Cirque du Soleil is finally back, making its first stop in Las Vegas ahead of a return to destinations worldwide
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Jun 2021
Download boss described the event as ‘the return of the full festival experience we’ve all been waiting for.’
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 21 May 2021
The COVID-safe version of the event will go ahead at quarter capacity with no camping allowed
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 May 2021
The Smithsonian has partnered with cruise operator Ponant to offer educational voyages to a number of destinations worldwide
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 14 May 2021
The iconic marmalade loving-bear was inspired by a lone teddy bear in a toy shop close to Paddington station
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 12 May 2021
Travel to the year 3000 and back with a brand-new Doctor Who-themed immersive theatre experience coming to London in May
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 10 May 2021
Research has revealed that 26% of British festivals have been called off due to a lack of COVID-related cancellation insurance
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 10 May 2021
Ticket-holders had to provide a negative COVID test to gain entry
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 04 May 2021
The Dundee Cultural Recovery Fund will support cultural institutions through financial difficulties and bring tourists back to the area
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Apr 2021
Lithuania’s government is backing plans to transform its famous Lukiškės Prison complex into a multifunctional hub featuring museums, restaurants, hotels and other commercial and cultural spaces
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 16 Apr 2021
Life in Stages is a brand-new conversation series from the National Theatre profiling some of the biggest names in British theatre
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 07 Apr 2021
The Royal Albert Hall has released a short film, narrated by Mick Jagger, to celebrate the anniversary
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 07 Apr 2021
Egypt has celebrated the long-awaited opening of its National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with a procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies through Cairo
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Apr 2021
The London venue says the move will widen access to its performances while also enticing an audience fresh out of a national lockdown
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Mar 2021
The historic theatre in London will reopen with a series of Shakespeare classics starting in May
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 19 Mar 2021
Jean Nouvel have won a competition to design the new opera house in Shenzhen, while SANAA submitted the winning entry for the city's maritime museum
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 15 Mar 2021
Mexico’s famous luchadores are taking a stand against COVID-19, touring Latin America’s largest wholesale food market to promote mask wearing
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 15 Mar 2021
The actor shared his story to raise awareness for the fund, which supports theatre workers in financial crisis
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 12 Mar 2021
The gallery was originally founded with the hope of bringing art to the working classes
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 05 Mar 2021
Isle of Wight festival organisers say that they hope to bring back as many artists as they can for the later dates
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 03 Mar 2021
Coming to Canada in 2025, the multi-purpose venue will incorporate state-of-the-art features necessary to facilitate large-scale eSports events
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 02 Mar 2021
DriveINSIDE Theatre will allow visitors to get a dose of culture right from their cars
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 18 Feb 2021
What does it take to make it to the elite level of circus performer? Cirque du Soleil veteran Elena Lev reveals all...
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 09 Feb 2021
Geoff Ellis says the vaccine rollouts are ‘encouraging’ for the festival sector, which has been hard hit by the Coronavirus pandemic
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 05 Feb 2021
Coachella and Stagecoach will not be able to go ahead due to the ‘dire COVID-19 situation’ in California
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Feb 2021
Are plastic bubbles the future of live music?
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 29 Jan 2021
The platform will help to recoup revenue lost as a result of the ongoing pandemic
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Jan 2021
Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition has been touring since 2012
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 26 Jan 2021
A converted steel factory and Butchart-inspired gardens are at heart of Shanghai’s newest and largest parkland and culture zone
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 21 Jan 2021
The world-famous Glastonbury music festival will not go ahead in 2021 ‘with great regret’
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 16 Jan 2021
The spinning coaster by Mack Rides represents a €17.5m investment and is the first ride to be themed after a music festival
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 15 Jan 2021
Work has begun to redevelop Berlin’s former Spreepark into a cultural attraction
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 11 Jan 2021
The experience will feature memorabilia and memories curated by Def Leppard
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 08 Jan 2021
The second round of NLHF’s Culture Recovery Fund makes £36m available for sites across Britain
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 07 Jan 2021
The ‘cinematic’ performance follows the tragic story of poet André Chénier who was executed during the French Revolution
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 06 Jan 2021
Industry leaders have urged the British government to set out reasonable return timetable for mass gatherings and to introduce insurance policies to provide stability for the country’s music festivals
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Jan 2021
Grupo Xcaret says its new landmark attractions will now open at the end of the year - 12 months later than originally planned
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Jan 2021
Recognising the world’s most astonishing attractions, Planet Attractions names 2021’s Wonder Award winners
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Dec 2020
See the Dickens Museum take its performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’ online with actor Dominic Gerrard
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 17 Dec 2020
Combining cutting-edge technology with traditional stagecraft, a new virtual reality experience from the Royal Opera House will make its grand debut in 2021
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Hannah Reeder | Planet Attractions | 15 Dec 2020
Tier three is a major blow for London’s theatre venues, which had only just been given permission to reopen a few weeks ago
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 09 Dec 2020
Our World Heritage is calling on the general public to save world heritage sites
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Hannah Reeder | Planet Attractions | 07 Dec 2020
The theatres might be closed but the British Library is inviting families to make their own at home
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Dec 2020
Actors call on a ‘fellowship’ of fans to help raise £4.5m to fund the house’s purchase and start a programme of events.
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020
While most of the world is in shutdown, China has managed to keep the ongoing pandemic in check. With the country successfully adapting to its new normal, Alice Davis takes a look at five major projects coming to one of its largest cities - Shanghai.
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 03 Dec 2020
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited a number of entertainment venues to show their support for the sector
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Dec 2020
The Federation of Music Festivals of Wallonia-Brussels has written a letter to the Belgian health authorities, offering its services to assist with the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020
The Channing Tatum-produced show returns after a long COVID hiatus
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