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Edinburgh 2020: all festivals are cancelled

Edinburgh Art Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh International Festival and The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo have all announced they will not take place in 2020.

balletLORENT’s Rumpelstiltskin gets online release

Sadler’s Wells has added to its Digital Stage programme a matinée screening of balletLORENT’s Rumpelstiltskin and the first dance at home workshops for families and older audiences.

Theatre by the Lake cancels summer season

Keswick's Theatre by the Lake has decided to cancel its summer season, due to run from May to October.

Night of original work in Warwickshire

A night of original live performance is being organised by Shoot Festival which showcases “the best emerging talent in Coventry and Warwickshire”.

Polunin Romeo & Juliet at Royal Albert Hall rescheduled

After the enforced postponement of the original date, Sergei Polunin’s company, Polunin Ink, has rescheduled this one-night-only performance for May 2021.

Hampstead to stream Bartlett, Steel and Brenton plays

Hampstead Theatre is to stream its productions of Mike Bartlett’sWild, Beth Steel’s Wonderland and Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line for free, each for a week on demand, in partnership with The Guardian.

Too Pretty To Punch on International Transgender Day of Visibility

Trans artist Edalia Day makes their work available digitally with Too Pretty To Punch online on 31 March, aptly International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Composers to write A Song for Our Time

Jason Robert Brown will select a newly written song for our time to be recorded for theatre charity, Acting for Others.

More Royal Opera House free productions online

In addition to previously announced free broadcasts, the Royal Opera House has announced the next in the series of productions to be available to watch online.

Olivier Awards retrospective replaces ceremony

Highlights from a decade of Olivier Awards will be broadcast on television and radio in place of the previously scheduled awards ceremony.

Theatr Clwyd Together | Theatr Clwyd Ynghyd

Theatr Clwyd reaches out with an initiative to encourage creativity in the local and wider community.

Leave A Light On: week 2 line-up

Lambert Jackson and The Theatre Café are presenting a series of concerts to be live-streamed to both entertain those in self-isolation and provide some financial support to the artists involved.

Hopes that Buxton Fringe will continue

Buxton Festival Fringe has announced it will do its best to go ahead in some form in 2020 and has introduced key changes.

Birmingham students create online drama classes

First-year students studying applied theatre at Birmingham City University have created DIY drama classes online for children and their parents to encourage them to take part in teaching together at home during the coronavirus crisis.

Oddsocks goes online with past performances

Derby company Oddsocks is waiting for news about performances in the summer before it decides whether its tour of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors can go ahead.

Curve to share Asian Football Casual recording

Leicester’s Curve theatre is to share online for free an archive recording of its production of Riaz Khan’s Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual.

RSC and Marquee team up to stream weekly productions

The Royal Shakespeare Company and performing arts streaming service Marquee TV have teamed up to offer new productions each Saturday.

The (Shakespeare) Show goes online weekly

Following its opening live reading of Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Show Must Go On will live-stream weekly Shakespeare readings until November.

Barn Theatre streams Henry V

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester is to hold a press night for its live-streamed production of Henry V, directed by Hal Chambers and starring Aaron Sidwell and Lauren Samuels.

BalletBoyz Deluxe on BBC Four and online

BalletBoyz’ new dance show Deluxe will air on BBC Four for the BBC Culture in Quarantine festival and then be available online to launch Sadler’s Wells Facebook Premieres.