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Living Newspaper Edition 7

Blessing Adetunji, Fatima Kazmi, Tyreke Leslie, Naomi Lundie-Smith, Sam Picke...

Tarantula

Philip Ridley

J’Ouvert

Yasmin Joseph

Living Newspaper Edition 6

Pamela Carter, Hester Chillingworth, Tim Crouch, Molly Davies, Amy Bethan Eva...

La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini

Living Newspaper Edition 5

Zia Ahmed, Leo Butler, Guillermo Calderón, Nick Cassenbaum, E.V. Crowe, Maud ...

Cruise

Jack Holden

Harm

Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Living Newspaper Edition 4

Bukky Bakray, Stacey Gregg, Tanika Gupta, Ellie Kendrick, Sabrina Mahfouz, Na...

Pygmalion

Ross McGregor

Orpheus

Ross McGregor

Persephone

Ross McGregor

Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare

Living Newspaper Edition 3

Travis Alabanza, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Nick Bruckman, Anupama Chandrasekhar, ...

Hysterical! A Hilarious History of Hysteria

Rebecca Buckle

How I Became an Englishman

John Peter, as told to Judith Burnley

Faust

Charles Gounod

The Theatre Channel Episode Five: The Classics of Broadway

Hymn

Lolita Chakrabarti

Good Grief

Lorien Haynes

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

Hole lot of Wonderland

10 May 2021

Alice in Wonderland—Down the Rabbit Hole returns on a UK tour featuring children’s TV presenter Kerry Boyne.

Meet young Royal Ballet dancers online

4 May 2021

The Royal Ballet will stream a behind-the-scenes glimpse into class with its youngest members, when they will share their thoughts on joining the world-famous ballet company.

One Dance and BBC funding opportunities

4 May 2021

BBC Arts and One Dance UK are inviting dance companies, independent artists, choreographers and technical partners to apply for funding to create short-form films and interactive projects.

Marcus Ryder heads RADA council

4 May 2021

Diversity campaigner Marcus Ryder MBE is to be the new chair of RADA council from June.

Creative Freelancers: Shaping London’s Recovery

2 May 2021

Changes to emerge from Fuel-based programme to support a new way forward for the creative sector's freelancers.

New London date for Polunin Romeo

2 May 2021

Sergei Polunin's twice-postponed London debut as Romeo at The Royal Albert Hall is now scheduled for Wednesday 1 December 2021.

Royal Opera House thanks the NHS

27 April 2021

Royal Opera House will present a Thank You NHS programme of live ballet and opera and a special performance by the Royal Opera Chorus for hospital radios around the UK.

Nurse’s memoir adaptation to go on tour

27 April 2021

A stage adaptation of Christie Watson’s memoir The Language of Kindness is to have its première in Coventry before a short tour.

Clean Break's garden view

26 April 2021

Clean Break present a live performance in the garden as part of a new season of work that also includes audio drama and an exhibition.

Rising Stars Festival

25 April 2021

Twenty-three producers will make their West End producing debuts under a scheme from Nica Burns's Nimax Theatres.

ENB stages Reunion at Sadler's Wells

25 April 2021

English National Ballet returns to the stage after more than a year from 17 to 30 May with Reunion at Sadler’s Wells, London.

Barre Project on Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

25 April 2021

William Forsythe and CLI Studios’ The Barre Project is to be available online in May for ten days.

ROH free Sleeping Beauty insight

15 April 2021

The Royal Opera House will present a free stream of a special Insight from 2016 celebrating The Sleeping Beauty.

Protein promenades En Route

15 April 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's newest dance work, En Route, will be an outdoor promenade piece around their home borough of Woolwich.

National programme for dancers with Parkinson's

14 April 2021

Danielle Teale Dance has been awarded a significant grant from Arts Council England to expand the reach of its Collective IDentity (CID) Project with dancers with Parkinson’s.

Nominations open for One Dance UK Awards

14 April 2021

Following a record year in 2020, which generated more than 1,000 nominations and reached more than 100,000 people, nominations for the One Dance UK Awards 2021 are now open.

Cast revealed for musical theatre online festival

14 April 2021

A “spectacular company of international stars” has been confirmed for Paul Taylor-Mills’ annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021.

Applications open for online performance courses

14 April 2021

New Earth is offering a five-week online performance course for British East and South East Asians based in the south of England, the Midlands and the North West.

Still dancing in Sadler's Wells exhibition

14 April 2021

Movement in still form is an exhibition of dance photography by Camilla Greenwell for Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage to celebrate International Dance Day.

National Youth Theatre to stage summer tour

13 April 2021

The National Youth Theatre has announced plans for its REP Company’s first national tour which will feature two new shows co-produced by Northampton’s Royal and Derngate.

ENB 2021–22 season and company updates

9 April 2021

English National Ballet's new season features Khan's Creature, Rojo's Raymonda, The Forsythe Evening, Nutcracker and a celebratory Emerging Dancer event.

Greenwich Dance awarded £58k grant

9 April 2021

Greenwich Dance has been awarded a grant of £58k from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

DanceWest three new trustees

9 April 2021

DanceWest's new trustees are former Evening Standard and The Independent video chief Mars El Brogy, Frantic Assembly Executive Director Kerry Whelan and wellbeing coach Jon Chu.

Hippodrome and Rambert to broadcast two new works

8 April 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and Rambert have revealed that they will join together to broadcast two new dance works to audiences across the world, Summer Livestream, in July 2021.

My First Ballet: Swan Lake on ENB at Home

7 April 2021

An hour-long, specially adapted version of Swan Lake is now available English National Ballet’s digital platform.

New family activity on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage

6 April 2021

Sadler’s Wells has commissioned an audio work designed for families from Charlotte Spencer Projects, All these things we can make, available as part of Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage.

Sadler's Wells receives Culture Recovery loan

4 April 2021

Sadler’s Wells has been awarded a loan of £4,250,000 from the UK Government's Culture Recovery Fund.

Rambert School is Moving Forward

3 April 2021

Rambert School's new film, Moving Forward, brings together seven short original dance works choreographed, performed and filmed by the students during lockdown.

ROH Friday Première: Royal Ballet’s Symphonic Variations

1 April 2021

On Friday 2 April, The Royal Ballet will stream Symphonic Variations from 2017, Frederick Ashton’s 1946 piece which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month.

Pappano remains ROH Music Director until 2023

1 April 2021

Sir Antonio Pappano will continue as Music Director of The Royal Opera until the end of the 2023/24 season before joining the London Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor.

Trafalgar Entertainment acquires HQ Theatres

31 March 2021

Trafalgar Entertainment, the group headed by Dame Rosemary Squire and Sir Howard Panter, has acquired HQ Theatres, which operates 11 regional UK venues, for an undisclosed amount.

ROH booking for Brecht’s and Weill’s Deadly Sins and Mahagonny

30 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel live from Covent Garden on 9 April.

Launch of Just Us Hip Hop Apprentice Co

30 March 2021

As Just Us Dance Theatre launches its new apprenticeship company with a mixed bill of Hip Hop works by Joseph Toonga, Kenrick Sandy, Shawn Aimey and Shanelle ‘Tali’ Fergus.

Royal Opera House new season highlights

28 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's first full season since 2019 features 11 new productions—including 5 world premières—and 20 revivals.

RSC serves up its first in-house podcast

25 March 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its first in-house podcast, Interval Drinks, bringing together members of the RSC's 2020–21 acting company with “inspirational personalities from the company's history”.

Sadler's Wells May to September 2021

25 March 2021

Sadler’s Wells will welcome audiences back from 17 May with seven productions scheduled up to the start of September 2021.

ROH to stream Royal Ballet Concerto

23 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's next live-streamed Friday Premiere will be The Royal Ballet’s Concerto (2019).

Iris offers opportunities to startDIRECTING

21 March 2021

Iris Theatre is accepting applications from people interested in a theatre directing career.

Fin Kennedy leaves Tamasha

21 March 2021

After seven years, artistic director Fin Kennedy leaves Tamasha Theatre Company.

English National Ballet launches new apps

19 March 2021

English National Ballet has launched new apps to deliver digital content from its online platform, ENB at Home.

Royal Ballet's Dream streaming

19 March 2021

The Royal Opera House continues its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with The Dream.

Open Mic for your stories

19 March 2021

English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre, in association with HOME in Manchester, are to stage a new interactive show.

BBC Easter broadcast of ENO Messiah

12 March 2021

BBC Two will broadcast a concert of Handel’s Messiah from English National Opera for television this Easter.

NYDC works digitally with latest cohort

12 March 2021

Run by Sadler’s Wells, National Youth Dance Company, has completed its second fully digital residency, led by Guest Artistic Director Alesandra Seutin.

RSC Winter’s Tale to get BBC TV première

12 March 2021

For the first time in its history a Royal Shakespeare Company production, The Winter’s Tale, is to get its world première on BBC Television.

Royal Opera House to open in May

11 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will open to audiences on 17 May 2021 with performances from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, new work online and an opera in 'hyper-reality'.

ENB School connects virtually with NHS patients and staff

11 March 2021

English National Ballet School has partnered with CW+ charity of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to share ballet performances with patients.

CAN Festival immersive promenade performance online

10 March 2021

In a virtual recreation of the gallery of Two Temple Place, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon is an immersive production directed by An-Ting Chang and designed by Christine Urquhart.

STR lecture: Putting Britain on Point

10 March 2021

The Society for Theatre Research will present an online lecture, Putting Britain on Point: 150 Years of Teaching Dance, from V&A Curator for Dance Jane Pritchard.

Samsung spotlights competition winners in new online adverts

8 March 2021

Samsung Spotlight winners, picked by Normal People’s Paul Mescal, are Michael Lynch, Adrian Mujkanovic and Adeola Yemitan, whose entries were re-shot in 8K for Samsung’s new digital ads.

tiata fahodzi changes at the top

7 March 2021

Chinonyerem Odimba leads tiata fahodzi into its 25th anniversary year.

Rambert commissions new work for streaming

7 March 2021

Rambert's live-stream programme for 2021 includes work by Jo Strømgren, Marion Motin, Imre Van Opstal and Marne Van Opstal and Benoit Swan Pouffer.

Lighting designers create sculptures where they live

5 March 2021

Eight lighting designers have been commissioned by Fuel Theatre to create temporary light sculptures to illuminate trees close to where they live in a project called The Litten Trees.

Rambert School returns to face-to-face training

5 March 2021

Following the latest government announcement, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance is to return to face-to-face training from 8 March.

One Dance and Guest continue mental wellbeing collaboration

5 March 2021

One Dance UK and filmmaker Rick Guest continue their collaboration promoting mental wellbeing for dancers with new short film A Dream of Dark & Troubling Things, which looks at rage.

Sadler’s Wells open call for residencies for new and experienced dancers

5 March 2021

Sadler’s Wells has launched an open call for a new Artist Residencies programme, available to both artists with five years’ experience or more and those who have recently embarked on a career in dance.

Greenwich Dance third series of Talking Moves podcast

4 March 2021

Greenwich Dance is to release a third series of Talking Moves, a podcast about dance.

ENB releases McMillan Manon online

4 March 2021

English National Ballet has released Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon on its Ballet on Demand streaming service.

Theatre Museum collection may be threatened again by V&A cuts

4 March 2021

As part of a drive to save £10 million, London's Victoria and Albert Museum is to break up its current departments and the curatorial team that looks after the collection from the former Theatre Museum.

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.

National Theatre at Home

16 April 2021

Philip Fisher reviews the National Theatre's new online video library.

A voice from the past, a message for the present

4 April 2021

National news editor and London reviewer Sandra Giorgetti talks to the team behind Talking Gods, a series of plays created and filmed by Arrows & Traps Theatre Company at her local venue, the Jack Studio Theatre.

The demise of the interval

3 April 2021

It may initially seem inconsequential but the announcement by Shakespeare's Globe that it is ditching the interval could have wider implications.

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.