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The Theatre Channel Episode Five: The Classics of Broadway

Hymn

Lolita Chakrabarti

Good Grief

Lorien Haynes

Little Wars

Steven Carl McCasland

Love in a Wood

William Wycherley

Dancing Nation

Mischief Movie Night In

Mischief Theatre

Andrea Chenier

Umberto Giordano, libretto by Luigi Illica

Like Water

Concept, choreography & direction by Mthuthuzeli November

Start the Week with Sir Nicholas Hytner

Andrew Marr and Sir Nicholas Hytner

The Theatre Channel Episode Four: Hopeful Holidays

Various

Living Newspaper: Edition 2

Ryan Calais Cameron, Si’an Chen, Yuqun Fan, Tom Fowler, Nick Gill, Ruby Holde...

Flight

Adapted by Oliver Emanuel from Caroline Brothers's novel Hinterland

Living newspaper: A Counter Narrative. Edition One

Miriam Battye, Amir Gudarzi, Nazareth Hassan, Matilda Ibini, Sonia Jalaly, Ja...

The Elf Who Was Scared Of Christmas

Neil McDermott and Gina Beck

The Comeback

Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen

Overflow

Travis Alabanza

Sadler’s Wells Global Gala

The Fabulist Fox Sister

Luke Bateman & Michael Conley

Dick Whittington—A New Dick in Town

Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper

Nine Lessons and Carols—Stories for a Long Winter

Chris Bush, Rebecca Frecknall and the Company

Frostbite : Who Pinched My Muff?

Gareth Joyner

The Dumb Waiter

Harold Pinter

Cinderella: A Socially Distanced Ball

Jodie Prenger and Neil Hurst

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

Cuckoo

Filmmaker Sarah Vaughan-Jones, co-directors Charlotte Darbyshire and Sophie d...

Death of England: Delroy

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams

Adventures in Film: Nostos, Little Grasses, Checkmate

Tasha Chu, Anjali Mehra, Monique Jonas

The Theatre Channel Episode Three: The Rock Episode

Various Artists

Come from Away

Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein

Hamilton

Book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired on Alexander Hamilton ...

Leopoldstadt

Tom Stoppard

The Play That Goes Wrong

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

The Seven Streams of the River Ota

Robert Lepage and Ex Machina

Kunene and the King

John Kani

Les Misérables

Book by Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victo...

Matilda the Musical

Based on the novel by Roald Dahl, book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by T...

On Blueberry Hill

Sebastian Barry

The Welkin

Lucy Kirkwood

Royal Opera House two new Friday Premières

27 February 2021

Royal Opera House's next two new Friday Premières will be Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations.

Candoco new Chair and first Associate Artistic Director

27 February 2021

Stephen Lightbown will become Chair of Candoco Dance Company in March 2021 and Dan Daw has been appointed as the company’s first Associate Artistic Director.

ENO new staging of Ring Cycle

27 February 2021

English National Opera is to perform a new staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Martyn Brabbins, over the next five years.

Off West End Awards 2021

21 February 2021

The Offies winners were announced this evening in an event streamed on Scenesaver to celebrate the work of fringe, alternative and independent theatres and artists.

Opoku-Addaie is new head of Dance Umbrella

19 February 2021

Dance Umbrella has appointed Freddie Opoku-Addaie its new Artistic Director and Chief Executive, only the fourth person to hold this position in 43 years.

Royal Ballet's The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering on DVD and Blu-ray

19 February 2021

On the first anniversary of the première of The Cellist, alongside Dances at a Gathering, a recording of this mixed programme is available to pre-order ahead of its release on 26 February.

ROH to mark International Women’s Day

19 February 2021

The Royal Opera House will celebrate International Women’s Day 2021 with events, broadcasts and discussions that explore the lives of women in the industry today.

Breath of fresh air as Arcola works with boffins

14 February 2021

London's Arcola Theatre is looking at the impact of airflow on the spread of viruses with researchers from Imperial College.

CAN Festival 2021 February and March events

14 February 2021

Chinese Arts Now’s annual festival of work by British East and South East Asian artists will feature ten weeks of new exhibitions, screenings, sound installations, performance and comedy.

ROH streams Young Artists and Friday Premieres

12 February 2021

Royal Opera House 's #OurHouseToYourHouse programme continues with Tony and the Young Artists and a new Friday Premiere stream.

Mike Bartlett to lead new writing programme at Hampstead

7 February 2021

Amongst its new initiatives, London's Hampstead Theatre will run a new playwriting programme led by Mike Bartlett.

The Place Festival of online works

4 February 2021

The Place has partnered with Chisenhale Dance Space to curate a festival under the theme "How Do We Tune In To Sensation?"

ENB Swan Lake online

3 February 2021

English National Ballet is bringing Derek Deane’s Swan Lake to online audiences via its recently launched streaming service, Ballet on Demand.

Clint Dyer becomes NT deputy artistic director

31 January 2021

National Theatre appoints Death of England director Clint Dyer as deputy artistic director.

ROH premières Puccini and Nureyev

30 January 2021

Royal Opera House has announced two new Friday Premières: Puccini's Il trittico and Nureyev's Raymonda Act III.

Greenwich Dance tours without touring

30 January 2021

For ArtsUnboxed, Greenwich Dance has commissioned six artists to develop new dance work that can be sold to organisations across the country and delivered using local artists.

Street dance and symphonies come together in Philharmonia residence

30 January 2021

Philharmonia Orchestra has appointed House of Absolute its first Artists in Residence.

No Dalmatians at Regent’s Park

25 January 2021

Plans to stage new musical 101 Dalmatians are shelved amid COVID restrictions.

Collide Theatre virtual Metamorphosis

23 January 2021

Collide Theatre and London fringe venue The Cockpit offer a virtual front row for Metamorphosis 360°.

May Contain Food by Luca Silvestrini's Protein

22 January 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's dance and singing fusion May Contain Food will be streamed in February on King's Place's streaming platform.

New dance project by James Cousins

22 January 2021

A short film and virtual gallery, In Search of Sanctuary, will open Dance East’s digital programme from 29-31 January 2021.

Papatango Shook online

17 January 2021

Papatango New Writing Prize-winner Shook has been filmed and will be online next month, whilst this year's Prize continues to accept submissions.

Dancing Nation broadcast postponed

10 January 2021

The broadcast of Dancing Nation on BBC iPlayer and the Sadler's Wells web site has been postponed to be compliant with new coronavirus guidelines.

Online ballet classes from ENB

7 January 2021

English National Ballet’s on-demand video platform now hosts a variety of online classes, BalletActive.

Call out for a hybrid Wandsworth Fringe

27 December 2020

Wandsworth Fringe is looking for expressions of interest for its part-digital and part-live festival in 2021.

Open Call for Extended Reality residencies

27 December 2020

London's BAC has teamed up with LIVR and Inclusion Producer Jazlyn Pinckney to create five residencies for artists working in Extended Reality.

ENB's Nutcracker Delights free online

22 December 2020

English National Ballet is to make a recorded performance of Nutcracker Delights available to watch for free on YouTube and Facebook.

Chinese Arts Now announces CAN Festival 2021

18 December 2020

Chinese Arts Now announces ten weeks of new art, performance, music and comedy, live and digital, from artists of the Chinese diaspora.

ENB School Winter Showcase online release

18 December 2020

English National Ballet School's Winter Showcase, filmed at The Roundhouse, will be available online from 21 December.

Normal People Mescal's campaign to support the arts

18 December 2020

Irish actor Paul Mescal stars in Lockdown, a 90-second filmed contemporary dance performance inspired by the events of 2020 to mark the launch of new initiative for performers.

Sadler’s Wells Dancing Nation online

15 December 2020

Sadler’s Wells and BBC Arts are to collaboration on an all-day digital, live and pre-recorded broadcast, Dancing Nation.

Tier 3 panic move by Government

14 December 2020

Responding to London being put into Tier 3, Cameron Mackintosh calls the Government action devastating and says it smacks of panic whilst producer Michael Harrison says it borders on incompetence.

RSC gets £19 million loan from government

11 December 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to receive £19.4 million from the government’s culture recovery fund to help secure the company’s immediate future.

Northampton and National Youth Theatre unite for training

9 December 2020

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate and the National Youth Theatre's partnership will provide training for young people and has led to the commissioning of three new productions.

Royal Opera House Christmas streams

9 December 2020

The Royal Opera House has announced its biggest ever programme of digital ballet and opera content for over the Christmas period.

RSC swings with streamed concert version of the Dream

8 December 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further details of Tales for Winter 2020-21, including Swingin' the Dream, a concert with the Young Vic and Theatre for a New Audience.

Constella Christmas Gala online

7 December 2020

Constella aims to combat loneliness among the elderly with its Connecting Stars one-to-one virtual performances to isolated care home residents.

Royal Albert Hall at 150

6 December 2020

A special programme of events marks the 150th anniversary of London's iconic Royal Albert Hall.

Battersea wins design and architecture awards

6 December 2020

Battersea Arts Centre has won the New London Architecture Design and Architecture Awards as well as the Experiencing Culture Prize and the Community Prize.

Tracing Movement's filmed dance piece Rebound

3 December 2020

Tracing Movement's Rebound is a filmed dance piece performed onstage at Theatre Royal Stratford East directed and choreographed by Stuart Winter.

Bush Theatre welcomes scripts

29 November 2020

Open submissions of full-length plays will be accepted by London's Bush Theatre until 10 January.

Sadler's Wells Global Gala line-up

28 November 2020

The Sadler's Wells Global Gala virtual fundraiser and celebration will feature appearances from Carlos Acosta, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan and Natalia Osipova.

Another Blow for the National Theatre

26 February 2021

Despite its proclamations, the government is doing the National Theatre and so many in the entertainment industry very few favours.

At Last

11 December 2020

For official reports on the final funding allocation from the Culture Recovery Funds, including belated loans for the National Theatre and the RSC.

Whodunnit or Didn’t

2 October 2020

Philip Fisher compares and contrasts the entertainment industry's responses to coronavirus in London and New York.

Favourite theatres on death row and an extra-terrestrial solution

11 September 2020

Philip Fisher highlights the plight of the Finborough Theatre in London and some of Edinburgh's finest, while remaining cynical about the government's Moonshine project.