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Digital GIFT programme announced

This year’s Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT), which will be held online, has announced its programme.

Interactive circus classes for everyone

Time on your hands? Learn circus skills from the experts with Lost in Translation Circus classes for beginners upwards.

Designs wanted for Curve production of Wizard of Oz

Leicester’s Curve is asking children to submit designs to be featured in the set of its Christmas 2020 production, the regional première of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz.

Digital commission for new Chinese work

Submissions are welcomed for a new digital commission to be enjoyed by a remote audience.

Music track from Akram Khan's Creature released

On what would have been the première of Creature by Akram Khan, composer Vincenzo Lamagna, Akram Khan Company and English National Ballet have shared a track from the score along with an art-film by Maxime Dos.

BRB online ballet classes and performance

In partnership with BBC's Culture in Quarantine, Birmingham Royal Ballet will present an online Ballet Class Live and a 'living room' performance of The Swan set to music by Saint-Saëns.

Nick Hern Books launches The NHB Playgroup

If you yearn to discuss a good play, your prayers are answered by Nick Hern Books' free to join NHB Playgroup which launches with Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play Yen.

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.