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Housetrap brings immersive theatre into the home

Immersive LDN, a West End venue that creates "theatre-led immersive experiences", will deliver theatre from and to living rooms with Housetrap Theatre and Arts Festival.

LIFT 2020 cancelled

This summer's LIFT biennial festival of international theatre, due to take place in London in June and July, has been cancelled.

Hampstead to stream I and You free for a week

Hampstead Theatre is to stream its production of I and You by Lauren Gunderson, starring Maisie Williams and Zach Wyatt, on Instagram for free from Monday 23 to Sunday 29 March 2020.

Lottery award for Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse has been awarded £38,755 by the Big Lottery Fund to support the work of its In House theatre group which provides a creative space for people who have experienced homelessness, mental health issues or substance abuse.

Opening week of streaming concerts announced

Leave A Light On, the series of online streamed concerts from West End Performers from Lambert Jackson Productions and Theatre Café, has announced its first week's schedule.

Stage stars take to the web on Shakespeare Day

Theatre Together, a new collective of more than 50 artists and professionals, will produce All the Web’s a Stage, an online event to raise money for those in the arts facing hardship as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Slater to drive Derby dance centre Déda

A new director has been appointed to drive forward Déda, Derby’s creative centre for dance, contemporary circus and outdoor performance.

Thriller Live to leave West End

Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live is to close for good in the West End after 11 years, three shows short of becoming the 11th longest running West End musical ever.

New Perspectives in call for new associates

Nottingham-based touring company New Perspectives is inviting applications for early-career artists in the East Midlands to join its new associates programme.

Northampton venue releases album for new digital musical

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is to release a concept album for a new digital musical called #ZoologicalSociety.

Theatre and comedy you can watch for free online

Since the theatres were forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, lots of performers have released their work online, much of it free although some are asking for donations.

The Gateshead International Festival of Theatre goes online

Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT) will still be going ahead between 1–3 May—online, as a digital festival.

balletLORENT cancels tour

balletLORENT has cancelled its tour of The Lost Happy Endings.

King's Head Theatre keeps going online

The show may be temporarily over, but the King's Head lays claim to be London's first pub theatre that keeps in touch with its audience with a live transmission every weekday.

Papatango new writing initiatives during theatre closures

Papatango Theatre Company has announced a series of initiatives around new writing including open commissions for monologues, free circulation of 60 new play texts and free advice on Arts Council applications.

SOLT and UK Theatre collaborate on support site for theatre professionals

A microsite, theatresupport.info, has been created by the Society of West End Theatres and UK Theatre to collate information and signpost useful resources relating to the shutdown due to the coronavirus.

The Bard goes online, live-streamed

The Show Must Go Online is an online group that will read the complete plays of William Shakespeare in the order they were written, live-streamed on YouTube.

Olivier Awards cancelled

The Society of London Theatres (SOLT) has announced that it has cancelled the 2020 Olivier Awards, due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall on 5 April.

Cancelled Habit of Art to be available to download

The Original Theatre Company’s production of Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art, which was due to open in Eastbourne on 18 March with Matthew Kelly and David Yelland, will now perform a closed filmed performance which will be available for download.

More Midlands theatre closures

Derby Theatre has called off its major Easter production, Theresa Heskins’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.