Royal Ballet School - Gillian Lynne Award for Choreographic Innovation
February 2026
In honour of renowned dancer, director and choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne’s trailblazing choreographic work and on what would have been her 100th birthday…
Isabella Chandler takes to the stage in The Red Shoes
February 2026
New Adventures Emerging Artist, Isabella Chandler has taken to the stage as part of 2025-26 company of The Red Shoes…
New Adventures - Emerging Artist 2025-26
August 2025
The Foundation is pleased to announce that Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company has selected Isabella Chandler as their Emerging Artist for 2025-26…
New Adventures - Principal Support Programme video with Leo McCorkindale
April 2025
In December 2024 the Foundation was delighted to join with Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company to assist in their Principal Support Programme …
New Adventures - Principal Support Programme
December 2024
We are delighted to join with Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company to assist the Principal Support Programme, created this year to nurture the development of the next generation of young dancers at the early stage of their careers…
New Foundation Scholars at ArtsEd for 2024-25
November 2024
Continuing the Foundation and Gillian Lynne’s long-standing association with ArtsEd, the Foundation’s ArtsEd awards for 2024-25 have been renamed the Dame Gillian Lynne Scholarships…
Foundation to support Laurence Olivier Bursaries Programme
July 2024
The Foundation has joined with the Laurence Olivier Bursaries programme helping to support talented students studying at drama school…
Spotlight on Foundation Scholars Alex Gavin and Calum Isaacs
May 2024
The Foundation has been excited to have followed the careers of two young men - Alex Gavin and Calum Isaacs - who are now coming to the conclusion of their time studying for their BA degrees …
Royal Central School - Merrily We Roll Along
March 2024
The Royal Central School’s Embassy Theatre staged a wonderful production of Merrily We Roll Along performed by the BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre students’ final year group…
ArtsEd - The Drowsy Chaperone
January 2024
A sell-out audience at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre at ArtsEd in Chiswick saw final-year musical theatre students put on a lively and enthralling production of The Drowsy Chaperone…
The Royal Academy of Dance Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award
November 2022
A very special occasion took place at the Royal Academy of Dance on November 16 to honour this year’s award recipient, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Earlier in the day at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Her Majesty The Queen Consort presented him with RAD’s highest award, the QEII…
Patrons at St James’s Church Christmas Gala Concert
November 2022
The inaugural St James’s Church Christmas Gala Concert
was held on Thursday November 17.
The famous church on Piccadilly in the heart of London was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and dates back to 1684…
Foundation Awards for 2022-23
October 2022
The Foundation continues its ongoing association with the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and ArtsEd through the Gillian Lynne Scholarship and Foundation Bursary Awards
An Evening With Peter Land … or ‘How To Construct The Perfect Negroni’
June 2022
On Saturday July 2nd Peter Land will be performing at the OSO theatre in Barnes for a special evening of music, song, stories and laughter in honour and memory of his darling wife, Gillian Lynne and to support the Foundation they established together…
Dame Gillian Lynne Scholarship announced
October 2021
The Foundation has joined with the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama to create the Dame Gillian Lynne Scholarship. The scholarship will assist a student studying for a BA (Hons) Acting (Musical Theatre)…
Lynne and Land Foundation Bursaries announced for 2021/22
October 2021
Continuing Dame Gillian Lynne’s long standing relationship with ArtsEd, the Foundation have created two new bursaries to be awarded to students undertaking BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Course…
Farewell to Foundation Patron and renowned visionary educator, Sir Ken Robinson
September 2020
We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Sir Ken Robinson, a wonderful supporter and Patron of our Foundation…
Foundation Announces 2020 Awards
July 2020
The Lynne & Land Foundation is pleased to announce that the following institutions will receive Funding Grants for the 2020/21 academic year…
J.R.Ballantyne announced as first recipient of Foundation Award
July 2019
The Foundation has awarded its first scholarship to ArtsEd student, J.R. Ballantyne, who will complete his degree course and graduate this summer.
Ballantyne’s first professional job and West End debut is in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat..