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NSDF goes virtual for 2020

The National Student Drama Festival will move online for 2020 with the support of artists and speakers including Emma Rice, Mark Ravenhill, Laura Wade and April De Angelis.

NT Live to stream for free via YouTube

National Theatre At Home will stream NT Live productions for free, starting with One Man, Two Guvnors, and give students and teachers access to the National Theatre Collection at home.

Sadler’s Wells takes to the Digital Stage

Sadler’s Wells has released new dance content and workshops on Digital Stage, its free online performance platform, following the cancellation of shows due to COVID-19.

News from Cardiff

Cardiff's Sherman Theatre announces an evolving project aimed at artists affected by the coronavirus lockdown; and a Robinson Crusoe-inspired play is made available to view online.

Habit of Art and The Croft to share online run

Original Theatre Company's productions of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art and Ali Milles's The Croft, both cut short due to the closure of the theatres, will have a limited run online until June.

Headlong and Century bring leading playwrights to isolated audiences

Headlong with Century Films will live-stream new works from playwrights including April De Angelis, James Graham, Chloë Moss and Duncan Macmillan in Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre From a State of Isolation.

A digital festival of dance from Leicester

Let’s Dance International Frontiers, the annual dance festival in Leicester, is going ahead online with a digital festival of dance.

Nottingham Playhouse videos to keep audiences engaged

A series of videos is being released by Nottingham Playhouse to keep communities in the East Midlands engaged with the arts.

Papatango monologues to be shared for free as video and PDF

Papatango Theatre Company's Isolated But Open Commissions—Voices From Across The Shutdown will include two new monologues from Rachel De-Lahay and Anders Lustgarten alongside ten others chosen anonymously from an open call-out to be filmed and shared and published by Nick Hern Books as PDFs for free download.

See HOME at home with new online commissions

Manchester's HOME has announced Homemakers, a series of new commissions from artists including Bryony Kimmings, Theatre Ad Infinitum, Javaad Alipoor and Plaster Cast Theatre to be received by audiences in their homes.

Midlands theatre closures: update

The Royal Shakespeare Company has confirmed that all performances have been cancelled until Thursday 30 April.

Welcome to the Coronavirus Theatre Club

Three North East actors are taking work online to keep actors, writers and directors busy during the coronavirus outbreak

Free online ballet and opera from Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House has announced a free programme of curated online broadcasts, musical masterclasses and cultural insights on Facebook and YouTube.

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.