Online theatre

Nottingham’s Madness of George III to be shown online

Nottingham Playhouse’s production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III is to be streamed online as part of the National Theatre At Home series.

BBC to broadcast RSC’s Romeo and Juliet

The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Romeo and Juliet is to be broadcast on BBC Four as part of its Culture in Quarantine series.

Lyric Belfast and BBC team up to produce new theatre commissions

The BBC is to screen six new theatre pieces by leading Northern Irish writers produced by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

Belgrade puts two shows online for free

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre is to make two co-productions available to watch online for free.

BalletBoyz Deluxe on BBC4

The BalletBoyz 20th anniversary double-bill show Deluxe is to be broadcast on BBC Four and then available on iPlayer.

Ballet Black's The Waiting Game on BBC4

BBC4 will broadcast Ballet Black: The Waiting Game featuring interviews with the company’s artistic director Cassa Pancho and following South African dancer and choreographer Mthuthuzeli November as he creates a new ballet, The Waiting Game.

Head Wrap and Fagin streamed from The Place

The Place Online will stream The Head Wrap Diaries and Fagin's Twist.

Curve to stay shut until October

Leicester’s Curve theatre is to remain closed for performances until Saturday 31 October 2020.

Thousands tune in to Oddsocks’ Macbeth

An audience of more than 3,000 tuned in online to see touring theatre company Oddsocks’ performance of Macbeth, filmed live from the home of the company’s directors.

Locked Down, Looking Up

London's The Space has received funding from Arts Council England for lockdown activities.

Home-made monologue earns praise

A 13-minute monologue, filmed at home in Lancashire, has picked up enthusiastic reviews.

Fame awaits online

Fame, the musical that lives forever, is now streaming on Broadway HD.

Bush Theatre lockdown photo challenge

Writers get behind weekly photo challenges, starting with Phoebe Eclair-Powell's fantasy images.

More free Royal Opera and Royal Ballet productions online

Royal Opera House is making available online productions of The Cellist (The Royal Ballet, 2020), Il trittico (The Royal Opera, 2012), La Fille mal gardée (The Royal Ballet, 2005) and The Magic Flute (The Royal Opera, 2017).

One Dance UK digital youth dance festival summer 2020

One Dance UK is moving its U.Dance National Festival online this year for a weekend of streamed dance masterclasses, showcases, careers talks and information sessions for young people.

Buxton Fringe goes ahead outdoor and online

Buxton Fringe 2020 is hoping to go ahead with live outdoor performances that do not contravene government guidelines and online events.

ENB's Nora and Swan Lake online

English National Ballet's next Wednesday Watch Parties will feature Stina Quagebeur’s Nora and Derek Deane’s Swan Lake.

Your chance to look behind the Green Door

Ann Brown’s harrowing but inspirational play Green Door is to be available online.

Belgrade to stream Under the Umbrella

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre is to stream online its 2019 production of Amy Ng’s Under the Umbrella.

Richard Alston new web site

Richard Alston new web site and cheering article.

Young people reimagine the future in Derby

Young people in Derby are being provided with a professional online platform to share their ideas of a reimagined future beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Renée Fleming and Tamara Rojo in conversation

Soprano Renée Fleming and Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of English National Ballet, will discuss online how the arts can contribute to 'holistic routes to wellbeing.

Birmingham’s Lightpost appoints new leaders

Two former members of a Birmingham theatre company which aims to address the effects of racism and discrimination have been employed in leadership roles.

Branson and Chalayan next up on Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

TOM by Wilkie Branson and designer Hussein Chalayan's Gravity Fatigue are the next two performances on the Sadler's Wells free online dance programme, Digital Stage.

Courtyard to score with FA Cup giant-killing play

The Courtyard Hereford is to première a live recording of its 2018 production of Nick Lane’s The Goal, which will be available online.

Trio unite to sing number from Nottingham show Piaf

Three actors who should have been performing in Piaf at Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse have come together for an exclusive performance of one of the songs from the production, "Hymne a L' Amour".

Graeae Crips Without Constraints

Crips Without Constraints is a programme that theatre company Graeae is rolling out on line during lockdown.

Theatr Clwyd dance for Parkinson's workshops

Theatr Clwyd is running free online dance workshops for people affected by Parkinson’s alongside national charity Parkinson’s UK Cymru.

Masterclasses in O’Riordan's Doll's House

The Lyric Hammersmith's A Doll’s House has an online screening with masterclasses for emerging directors and writers.

Border Crossings' international work online

Work from Mauritius, Italy and Peru comes on line courtesy of Border Crossings.

Yard Online—and on the phone

One-to-one phone calls, an interactive work-out and a Town Hall discussion on the future of theatre form part of Yard Theatre's day-long offering of commissioned events.

Amici Dance Theatre Company celebrates 40th anniversary online

Amici Dance Theatre Company is to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a YouTube livestream series.

More Ballet Black online

Ballet Black is to release a further three performances online as part of its #BBonFilm initiative.

Protein at 21 streams Border Tales

Protein’s 21st anniversary celebrations continue with Border Tales streaming as part of The Place this week.

Working with young people during lockdown

How Northumberland-based Mortal Fools has continued its work with young people and in professional development in spite of the lockdown.

Open Clasp’s Rattle Snake streaming online

Open Clasp’s Rattle Snake, a play about coercive control, is to stream with BSL signing.

Chichester Midnight Gang and Beauty and the Beast online

David Walliams's The Midnight Gang and the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast will be the next productions to be streamed online from Chichester Festival Theatre.

ENB invites Nureyev's Romeo to Wednesday Party

English National Ballet's next Wednesday Watch Party instalments will include Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet and Azure Barton’s Fantastic Beings.

Deaf hip hop drama premières on British TV

Here/Not Here, a new British, deaf hip hop drama utilising British Sign Language, Krump street dance, football and Visual Vernacular, will have its TV première on Film4 and Together TV.

Stuff from NE writer launches Bitter Pill project

Stuff, a new play from NE writer Alison Carr, launches a new online series of plays from Bitter Pill Theatre.

Protein features community dance work online

Luca Silvestrini’s Protein presents online dance pieces by community groups inspired by the company's past works in Protein 21: Reimagine.

Sadler's Wells celebrates International Dance Day 2020

In celebration of International Dance Day, Sadler’s Wells has curated a playlist for digital partner Nowness of works created and choreographed for the screen.

James Cousins Company releases short films online

James Cousins Company is to release a series of short films specially re-choreographed for camera on its Facebook page.

Peake and Frankcom put their Talking Heads together

Maxine Peake and director Sarah Frankcom rekindle their Manchester Royal Exchange relationship for the small screen.

Birmingham European festival goes online

A theatre festival that has been forced to postpone due to the coronavirus pandemic is to create a digital “stay at home” event.

Tackling Shakespeare’s language: RSC artists give tips

Artists from the Royal Shakespeare Company who are unable to rehearse or perform will help to unlock Shakespeare for thousands of children and young people studying at home.

Comedy duo Hunt & Darton deliver Norfolk & Norwich Festival does Radio Local

Norwich’s Future Radio will host Hunt & Darton Radio Local programme each day of the cancelled Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Southwark Playhouse—Southwark Stayhouse

Three full-length productions and a set of Philip Ridley monologues start London's Southwark Playhouse online platform.

Theatre Means Business—the industry prepares for its comeback

Industry bodies SOLT and UK Theatre have launched a web site of information and training webinars to support those working on their post-lockdown strategy.

Two ballet schools share message of solidarity and hope

Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham and English National Ballet School in London have united to share a message of hope and support in footage filmed by students dancing at home edited by BalletBoyz.

Derby Theatre stays connected online

Derby Theatre is remaining connected with audiences through digital content on its web site and shared through its social media channels.

Alternative LDIF20 celebrates anniversary online

Annual Leicester dance festival Let’s Dance International Frontiers will celebrate its tenth anniversary online after the cancellation of its physical festival due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

Ballet Black On Film initiative

Ballet Black will present a series of ballets from its repertoire online and online classes taught by Ballet Black dancers.

Lyric Belfast places life in lockdown under the microscope

George Orwell’s 1984 inspires five new online performances exploring the now and the next of the coronavirus pandemic.

Over 1,000 people share their Shakespeare

More than 1,000 people from around the world have submitted entries to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s #ShareYourShakespeare campaign.

Sadler's Wells puts Osipova, Breakin' Convention and more online

Sadler’s Wells' next Facebook Premieres will include Natalia Osipova, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Alexander Whitley and Breakin’ Convention.

More NDC Wales performances online

National Dance Company Wales has scheduled online performances for another four weeks, and dancers Clap for Carers this week.

Michael Clark's simple rock 'n' roll on iPlayer

Michael Clark Company's to a simple, rock 'n' roll... song is available on BBC iPlayer for 2 months.

Yellow Earth to start online course for Midlands writers

Yellow Earth Academy, which has held an acting course in Birmingham for the past two years, is to offer a free introductory online course in writing for live performance.

Graeae goes digital with Crips Without Constraints: A Play, A Podcast, A Picture

Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, present an eleven-week digital programme.

Stars line up to read at h Club's World Book Night celebration

Alison Steadman, Ronni Ancona and Nigel Planer are amongst the stars appearing at h Club's virtual celebration on 23 April.

Judi Dench conversation supports Orange Tree Theatre

A recording of Dame Judi Dench, in conversation with Gyles Brandreth raises funds for London's Orange Tree Theatre.

Les Misérables staged concert digitally released for charity

The concert performance of Les Misérables starring Michael Ball and Alfie Boe has been released to raise money for theatre and NHS charities.

Rifco's Mushy: Lyrically Speaking online

‘Life-affirming” show Mushy: Lyrically Speaking from Rifco Theatre Company is now available for streaming.

Belgrade makes shows available online

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has unveiled a range of shows that audiences can watch online during the lockdown.

Join ENB from home for Wednesday Watch Parties

English National Ballet is inviting audiences to join them for Wednesday Watch Parties, featuring full-length recordings of their performances on Facebook and YouTube, over the next month.

Flamenco in support of NHS staff & volunteers

The Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company will stream a fundraising flamenco concert in aid of NHS staff and volunteers caring for COVID-19 patients.

See What the Butler Saw at Curve

Leicester’s Curve is to continue releasing productions online while the theatre remains closed.

New Nottingham Playhouse podcast series

Nottingham Playhouse has released the first three episodes of a new podcast series that will explore the careers and lockdown experiences of nationally and internationally renowned artists.

BBC Arts to stream new Corey Baker Dance film

Birmingham-based company Corey Baker Dance has created a new short film titled Spaghetti Junction, which will receive its first screening through BBC’s Culture in Quarantine for Earth Day.

Hope Mill stages online Rodgers + Hammerstein concert

Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester is staging an online concert, Some Enchanted Evening, featuring West End stars celebrating the songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein for one night only.

Oldham Coliseum goes online

Oldham Coliseum has released 100 Word Plays (about Oldham) as audio online and is preparing to launch a monologue challenge for school and college students.

NDCWales launches new online programme

National Dance Company Wales has launched a new online programme, KiN: Connected, to create a community for dance online with audiences, participants and the sector.

Shobana Jeyasingh / Nyman collaboration revisited

Shobana Jeyasingh’s collaboration with composer Michael Nyman, Configurations, will be broadcast live via Facebook Premiere for free.

Maliphant and Vangelis Thread on Digital Stage

Sadler’s Wells has added Russell Maliphant and Vangelis’s The Thread to Digital Stage, its free online performance programme, plus new dance workshops.

Sander Blommaert gives ballet classes online

Belgian-born Sander Blommaert, former dancer with The Royal Ballet and a qualified ballet teacher with Elmhurst Ballet School, Birmingham, is giving ballet classes online.

RSC invites people to share their Shakespeare

Audiences from across the globe are being invited to share their love of Shakespeare in whatever way they choose as part of an initiative to keep the work of Shakespeare alive.

Royal Ballet's Marcelino Sambé short film

A collaboration between The Royal Ballet and Cloakroom Magazine, Hello Marcelino is a short film starring Royal Ballet principal Marcelino Sambé.

Primary schoolers help create show

Youngsters can contribute to the creation of the next adventure by Raddlesham Mumps creator.

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Nutcracker online

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo will offer Jean-Christophe Maillot's version of Nutcracker—Casse Noisette Compagnie—online from 15-18 April.

Barb Jungr's Troubled Days shared with The Fourth Choir

International singing artist Barb Jungr has released new song "In My Troubled Days" performed with The Fourth Choir and published the arrangements for choirs to perform it.

Opera North’s orchestra play together online

Forty play in perfect harmony for digital performance of the opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra.

iPlayer première for BAC's new film

Battersea Arts Centre's new film, Performance Live: The Way Out, is now available to view on iPlayer as part of BBC Arts' Culture in Quarantine season.

Middle Child puts All We Ever Wanted online

Middle Child has put a recording of its 2017 show All We Ever Wanted Was Everything online.

Irish Repertory Theatre invites you to Meet The Makers

New York's Irish Repertory Theatre expands COVID-19 online content to include conversations by scholars and artists.

Online Fringe Festival launched

A web site offers performances from Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Vault Festival and more.

ENB Philharmonic thanks the NHS

Musicians from English National Ballet Philharmonic have joined together for a virtual rendition of an extract from Alexander Glazunov’s Raymonda to say thank you to the NHS.

CFT puts Mrs Harris's trip to Paris online

Chichester Festival Theatre is to stream a selection of its archive productions online, beginning with the musical Flowers For Mrs. Harris.

Ballet de Monte Carlo's Beauty online

Monte Carlo Ballet offers works online, opening with Jean-Christophe Maillot's Beauty (La Belle).

Sadler’s Wells adds Rain to Digital Stage

New additions to Sadler’s Wells' Digital Stage programme include Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas with Rain and new dance workshops to try at home.

Courtyard to stream live recording of Cinderella

Herefordshire arts centre The Courtyard is to release a live recording of its 2019 Christmas panto Cinderella.

Quantum Magic Lab's free magic lessons

Entertainment for bored children sorted by magic—literally!

Cirque Du Soleil online show

Cirque Du Soleil offers fans glimpses behind the scenes in an hour-long show via its new online content hub.

Perform your own panto

Middle Child has made available resources so that every family can perform their own take on The Little Mermaid.

This week's line-up for #KHTOnline

Each week, London's King's Head Theatre is streaming insights into the theatre industry, looking at everything from producing to storytelling.

Eclectic lineup for Housetrap Theatre & Arts Festival 2020

Artists from across the UK and from Taiwan assemble in their living rooms to deliver music, comedy, drama and mind cleansing.

Elders get The Best Seat In The House

The Not Forgotten, a British Armed Forces charity, is behind an initiative to bring free twice-weekly entertainment initiative for older generations at home and in care.

Curve makes Earnest play available online

Leicester’s Curve is to share a tech recording of its 2016 production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest online for free.

Oddsocks releases Hamlet the Comedy online

Derby-based Oddsocks is releasing the second in its series of past productions, Hamlet the Comedy, which features the late Paul Daniels as a hologram of Hamlet's father.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Live streamed concerts will keep actors in work during closures

Lambert Jackson Productions and The Theatre Café have announced a series of intimate, piano vocal concerts, Leave a Light On, to be streamed live from The Theatre Café to keep actors in paid work during theatre closures.

A School for Fools

Based on the novella by Sasha Sokolov, adapted by Pavel Haradnitski

Parasite

Kathryn Golding 金葉

Dracula

Bram Stoker, adapted by David Nixon

The Cellist

Choreography by Cathy Marston, music by Philip Feeney

Love’s Labour’s Lost

William Shakespeare

This House

James Graham

When Everything's Normal Will You Forget?

Ink Asher Hemp

La Damnation de Faust

Hector Berlioz

Anno Domino

Alan Ayckbourn

Revisor

Crystal Pite (choreographer and stage director) and Jonathon Young (script ba...

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

A Journey and a Half

Shahid Iqbal Khan

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti

The Tempest

Thomas Adès, libretto by Meredith Oakes

Barber Shop Chronicles

Inua Ellams

Cooped Up

Adam Fenton

Here/Not Here

Jonzi D with music by Torben Lars Sylvest

The Voyage of the St Louis

Daniel Kehlmann, adapted by Tom Stoppard, based on the book The Voyage of the...

By Jeeves

Book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the...

It Is Easy To Be Dead

Neil MacPherson, based on the poems and letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

La Bohème

Composed by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, b...

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Stories from Home

Ines Sampaio, David Parkin, Tia Chand-Corey

Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

The Two Noble Kinsmen

John Fletcher and William Shakespeare

Specs of Light

Hannah Treadaway

A Separate Peace

Tom Stoppard

The Winter's Tale

Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon

The Good Book

James Phillips

Coriolanus

William Shakespeare

Frankenstein

Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Otherly Love

Brian Lonsdale

When We Got Sick

Jamie Hale

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

Stephen Sondheim

Some Enchanted Evening

Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II

New Speak Re-imagined

Various

Gloriana

Benjamin Britten, libretto by William Plomer

Love Never Dies

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Andrew Lloyd...

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

King Lear

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Orlando

Alice Birch, freely adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf

Broken Wings

Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Music by Peter Salem

Flesh

Anita Kelly

Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini by with a Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

The Thread

Artistic direction and choreography by Russell Maliphant, music by Vangelis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka, choreography and direction by Arthur Pita, music by Frank Moon

Night of The Living Dead™ - Remix

The Phantom of The Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Bryony Lavery

Amsterdam

Maya Arad Yasur

Così Fan Tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

I Want My Hat Back

Jon Klassen

Drawing the Line

Howard Brenton

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Wise Children

Angela Carter adapted by Emma Rice

Bella Figura

Yasmina Reza

The Way Out

Suri Krishnamma, Nichola Mark Harding and Omid Djalili

Così Fan Tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Flowers for Mrs Harris

Based on the novel by Paul Gallico, book by Rachel Wagstaff, music & lyrics b...

Crossings

Deirdre Kinahan

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Sally Cookson

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

Twenty Twenty

Directed by Sean Gandini

Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Count Andrea Maffei...

Getting Better Slowly

Nick Wood

One Man, Two Guvnors

Richard Bean

The Price of Everything

Daniel Bye

Isolated But Open: Voices from Across The Shutdown

Rachel De-Lahay, Anders Lustgarten

Wild

Mike Bartlett

Oklahoma

Music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on t...

Cyprus Avenue

David Ireland

Peter and the Wolf

Music by Prokofiev, choreography by Matthew Hart

Henry V

William Shakespeare

BalletBoyz: Deluxe

Maxine Doyle and Xie Xin

Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual

Adapted by Dougal Irvine from the book by Riaz Khan

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Bubble

Kieran Hurley

NewsRevue Special

Check Up: Our NHS @ 70

Mark Thomas

The Wind in the Willows

Book by Julian Fellowes, music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe

Ghost Quartet

Dave Malloy

The Bartered Bride

Bedřich Smetana

Panto in Lockdown: A Roundup

Simon Sladen surveys the online pantomime initiatives keeping the genre alive during lockdown.

Let’s not confuse theatres with Theatre

Peter Lathan responds to the suggestion that theatres may not be able to re-open until 2021.

Global Community

David Cunningham looks at the online offerings from Shakespeare's Globe and compares them with his visits to the venue soon after it opened.

Thank you for the music

Sandra Giorgetti tries to keep track of the tracks available online during the current health crisis.

National Theatre Collection on Drama Online

Philip Fisher reviews a fantastic resource for school and college students.

Lamentations of an isolated theatrical

Peter Lathan explores how well (or otherwise) he is living with isolation.

A Taste of Honey or Absolute Hell?

Philip Fisher responds to David Cunningham's lack of enthiusiasm for online theatre productions with sympathy but also a request to, at least, reconsider.

Online Theatre

Philip Fisher rounds up some of the best online theatre and opera offerings, many of which are free to view.

Ain't nothing like the real thing

David Cunningham explains why the online world can never make up for what he personally is currently missing from live theatre.

Established services for streaming British theatre, opera and ballet

While a lot of groups and individuals have put work online since the theatres closed, some long-established paid services already exist where you can see productions from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe and more.