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Akram Khan Co turns 20 with The Silent Burn

26 September 2020

Akram Khan Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a live-streamed programme of work, The Silent Burn Project.

Rural Dance goes digital

26 September 2020

This autumn, the Rural Touring Dance Initiative will present a series of online events.

Chickenshed takes Globaleyes online

26 September 2020

Chickenshed presents YouTube Premiere of Globaleyes on Friday 25 September 7.30PM.

72 actors to narrate Homer’s Odyssey

26 September 2020

Jermyn Street Theatre and London Review Bookshop join forces to present a day-long reading of Homer’s Odyssey on YouTube.

Royal Ballet back on stage

26 September 2020

The Royal Ballet is returning to the stage for a special live-streamed celebration performance.

Extraordinary Bodies stages low-fi lockdown film

24 September 2020

Extraordinary Bodies has produced a low-fi lockdown film.

Derby Theatre pays tribute to youth theatre member Lewis

24 September 2020

Derby Theatre is to pay tribute to former youth theatre member Lewis Sewell, who died aged 18 in summer 2020 from a rare cancer, by sharing a recording of a production in which he appeared.

Opera North live-streams from Leeds Town Hall

24 September 2020

Opera North will launch its Switch ON programme in a live-streamed concert from Leeds Town Hall presented by broadcaster and writer Suzy Klein.

Telling the stories of disabled women

22 September 2020

Funny Peculiar challenges the perception about disabled women in the current pandemic.

Theatre from Newham's Applecart

20 September 2020

Dazed New World is a new online theatre festival of new writing, clowning, spoken word, debate and an immersive audio experience.

Winners in Sherman's online season

20 September 2020

The Sherman Theatre’s autumn season online opens with an audio adaptation of Nova Theatre's Winners.

Arthur Pita's Mother film release

19 September 2020

The Mother, a short film featuring moments from Arthur Pita’s ballet of the same name starring Natalia Osipova and Jonathan Goddard will be released online.

RSC's Simon Trinder introduces the Bard to US actors

18 September 2020

Veteran Royal Shakespeare Company actor Simon Trinder is to expand his work by leading a series of free Introduction to Shakespeare sessions which will be exclusively for actors in the United States.

Digital dance from Lawrence Batley

17 September 2020

Locked down. Locked in. But living is a digital triple bill of three site specific dance productions from the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

10 Minutes to… details announced

16 September 2020

Live Theatre has announced the plays, creative teams and actors for 10 Minutes to…Call Home

Carly Bawden (Angélique) and Marc Antolin (Jean-René) in Romantics Anonymous

Cast revealed for Belgrade’s hosting of new Rice musical

15 September 2020

Casting has been confirmed for Romantics Anonymous, the new musical from director Emma Rice, which is to go on a virtual tour and will be co-hosted online by Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre on Wednesday 23 September.

Battle of Britain winning audio drama

14 September 2020

A competition winning play marking the Battle of Britain will be broadcast on 80th anniversary.

Puppets at Pop-Up Palladium

13 September 2020

Supporting puppeteers Pop-Up Palladium offers a range of shows and behind the scenes interviews.

Robots take over Northern Stage!

12 September 2020

Have your portrait drawn by a robot for a mural at Northern Stage.

Eagling's Marie Rambert-inspired Remembrance film gets online première

11 September 2020

New English Ballet Theatre’s filmed production of Wayne Eagling’s Marie Rambert-inspired Remembrance will première on YouTube.

In a Nutshell from Lost Dog's Duke

11 September 2020

The Place Online will show short film In A Nutshell by Ben Duke, artistic director of Lost Dog.

Choreographic challenge from NYB

11 September 2020

A new choreographic challenge for autumn from National Youth Ballet invites young dancers to explore how it feels to re-emerge and engage with the world around them as lockdown eases.

Rambert to perform live from Southbank studios

11 September 2020

Rambert's new première from Wim Vandekeybus, Draw From Within, will be streamed live from Rambert's studios in September.

Maureen's Rose for three days only

11 September 2020

Maureen Lipman stars in an online revival of Martin Sherman’s Rose from Manchester this weekend.

Small grants from the Northumberland Cultural Fund

11 September 2020

Small grants for new online digital content and 'socially distanced' / adhered to COVID-19 guidance events in Northumberland announced.

Sadler’s Wells autumn programme digital and live

10 September 2020

In autumn, Sadler’s Wells will present a new digital season and the first live performances at the venue since lockdown.

More details about new play, Credit, announced

10 September 2020

Cap-a-Pie has announced more details of Laura Lindow’s new play, Credit, which streams this month.

Midsummer Night's Dream—in its 2017 performance

Midsummer Night's Zoom

7 September 2020

The Octagon in Bolton is teaming up with Guildford Shakespeare Company to present a live online production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

An immersive sound journey with Mortal Fools

5 September 2020

NE-based Mortal Fools has launched an immersive audio theatre experience to “help drown out the noise of the modern world”.

My Beautiful Laundrette: co-production now online

4 September 2020

Nikolai Foster’s staging of My Beautiful Laundrette, based on Hanif Kureishi’s Oscar-nominated 1985 screenplay, is available to watch online for free.

Live Wired revealed

3 September 2020

Live Theatre has revealed its new digital programme, Live Wired.

ENB launches new on-demand video platform

2 September 2020

English National Ballet is to launch its new ENB at Home video-on-demand platform with a digital season of short works for camera.

New Perspectives to stream Lars von Trier comedy drama

1 September 2020

Josie Lawrence is to play the title character in a streamed version of the cult Lars von Trier film, The Boss of it All, which has been adapted by Nottinghamshire theatre company New Perspectives.

“Top-class talent”: Nottingham Playhouse Unlocked

Three-week festival as Nottingham Playhouse reopens

1 September 2020

Nottingham Playhouse is to open its doors for the first time since March for a three-week festival of live and live-streamed events.

ROH online autumn opera and ballet concerts

28 August 2020

The Royal Opera House is to make two evenings of opera and ballet live from Covent Garden available to view online.

Kneehigh all set to Strike Out

28 August 2020

An international theatre company is to Strike Out in a bid to find a new way forward in uncertain times.

Jekyll and Hyde in virtual reality in Coventry

26 August 2020

The National Production Company has created a new, “ingenious” adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in virtual reality which needs only a smartphone to access it.

Rosie Kay back on stage in Birmingham after 'retirement'

25 August 2020

Birmingham-based choreographer Rosie Kay is returning to the stage to perform the première of her new solo work as part of a triple bill, Absolute Solo II.

Poetry and movement film on Wales’s involvement in slave trade

24 August 2020

The next short poetry and movement film from National Dance Company Wales and Literature Wales, Plethu/Weave, focuses on Wales’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

China Plate pain play adapted into short film for BBC

21 August 2020

West Midlands-based independent producer China Plate has adapted its play The Shape of the Pain which opened in Edinburgh in 2017 into a short film which gives a “powerful and intimate insight into living with a rare, synesthetic chronic pain condition”.

Simon Russell Beale as Prospero in The Tempest

More top names talking Shakespeare at the RSC

21 August 2020

Antony Sher, David Suchet, Juliet Stevenson and Paterson Joseph are the latest to take part in Talking Shakespeare, an online conversation series led by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran.

balletLORENT online

20 August 2020

Newcastle’s balletLORENT has announced three ways in which they are continuing to work during the pandemic.

Emma Rice musical to get virtual Midlands screening

19 August 2020

Midlands audiences will be able to enjoy Emma Rice’s musical Romantics Anonymous when it makes its digital debut in autumn 2020.

Sadler’s Wells and Breakin’ Convention request Our Bodies Back

19 August 2020

Sadler’s Wells and Breakin’ Convention have released Our Bodies Back, a new dance film that speaks out against racism and honours the lives of black women.

Stand and Be Counted Theatre and Tafadzwa Muchenje will showcase a documentary, Where We Are

Refugees’ talents celebrated in online festival

18 August 2020

A festival that celebrates the artistic talents of refugees and asylum seekers is to present its programme of work online because of limitations on live performances due to COVID-19.

Song of Our Heartland on film

15 August 2020

Song of Our Heartland, a co-production between Opera North and Northern Heartlands, is to be released on film.

Powerhouse zooms in with sex addict MP play

14 August 2020

Birmingham-based company Powerhouse Theatre is to present a live Zoom play, White Noise, with a percentage of the profits from ticket sales going to LGBT+ arts charity the Raze Collective.

Walking Home: Opera North's sound journey

13 August 2020

Walking Home is a series of five 'sound journeys' commissioned by Opera North and composed and recorded by musicians during lockdown, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 6 Music and available for download 15–28 August 2020.

Protein's Sun Inside plays virtual Edinburgh

11 August 2020

Protein Dance's The Sun Inside, a film created by Luca Silvestrini, Roswitha Chesher and Andy Pink, will be available as part of ZOO’s 2020 digital Edinburgh programme.

15 Heroines and 2 Becketts

9 August 2020

Jermyn Street Theatre has put fifteen new commissions and a sell-out Beckett Double Bill online.

The redemptive power of Opera Helps

8 August 2020

Opera Helps began as an art project in which opera singers visited people's homes to sing to them one to one, "harnessing the redemptive power of opera", and has now been adapted for online.

Shedinburgh announces 'shed-ule'

7 August 2020

Shedinburgh Fringe Festival has released a schedule of one-off Zoom performances from sheds around the country during August featuring some leading names in Fringe theatre and comedy.

Happy Days after all

7 August 2020

A production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, by acclaimed director David Thacker, will now be shown online.

Theatre at home for youngsters

7 August 2020

The Dukes in Lancaster and Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield have devised a theatrical experience for 7- to 12-year-olds to enjoy at home.

Bolton's Mayor adds Octagon to charities

7 August 2020

The Mayor of Bolton has included the town’s Octagon Theatre amongst her chosen charities.

HOME—and away!

7 August 2020

HOME in Manchester has expanded its online audience internationally.

Shelton sings Sinatra for Nottingham Playhouse appeal

5 August 2020

Actor and singer Richard Shelton is to perform as Frank Sinatra in a concert from the balcony of his home in Hollywood in aid of Nottingham Playhouse’s Curtain Up appeal.

New NE play about Universal Credit to be streamed in September

4 August 2020

Newcastle-based Cap-a-Pie will stream Credit, a new play by Laura Lindow based on research into Universal Credit, the latest and biggest change to the benefits system, in September.

Ghost Light: the plight of the theatre ghost

31 July 2020

What happens to theatre ghosts when a pandemic closes their home?

BRB Cinderella to be streamed online

31 July 2020

David Bintley's production of Cinderella will be broadcast in full on Birmingham Royal Ballet’s web site and Facebook page at the end of its Home from Home series.

Edinburgh Book Festival goes online

31 July 2020

This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival will feature more than 140 online events over 17 days in August 2020.

theSpace launches online Edinburgh Fringe programme

29 July 2020

[email protected] will offer more than 80 shows online for free during August plus live shows every Saturday.

NDCWales & Literature Wales digital film collaboration

29 July 2020

Plethu/Weave will see NDCWales dancers partnered with Literature Wales commissioned poets on short solo film performances to première at the National Eisteddfod’s online digital festival.

Stan’s Cafe goes for quality in call centre play

29 July 2020

Birmingham company Stan’s Cafe is to première a play online which is inspired by global call centres and the fleeting relationships between those seeking help and those attempting to supply it.

Elmhurst Ballet School dance masterclasses

29 July 2020

Elmhurst Ballet School, the vocational school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet, will move its annual summer school online this August with its Back to Dance Masterclasses.

Moment of Grace on screen

26 July 2020

New play Moment of Grace has been adapted as a film-theatre hybrid for online viewing.

Call out for Capsule Theatre Festival

26 July 2020

Writers are invited to submit short plays suitable for socially distanced rehearsals and performance for new festival of filmed work.

ENB at HOME: youth dance course

25 July 2020

This summer, English National Ballet will run a course of free online classes for young dancers aged 14–19 years.

Exploring the body through performance and opera: Bahzad Sulaiman

Artists collaborate for international online festival

24 July 2020

Leicester-based ArtReach has commissioned artists aged under 30 from across Europe to create collaborative works of art for an online event, Journeys Festival International.

Starmer praises Coventry communities for pulling together

24 July 2020

Labour leader Keir Starmer has praised the outreach work done by Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre and the way communities of Coventry have pulled together during lockdown.

Summer schools to go ahead in Birmingham

23 July 2020

Birmingham REP is to host two summer schools, with those attending five-day workshops able to choose between in-person tuition in the theatre’s rehearsal rooms or online classes.

Noah zooms in for repeat Nottingham Playhouse performance

23 July 2020

Nottingham Playhouse’s live online production of Noah and the Peacock by Jeff James, written and created for Zoom during the theatre’s temporary closure, is to return in August.

“Heavy toll” of coronavirus: Buxton Fringe chair Stephen Walker

Buxton Fringe “vindicated” by late rush of entries

21 July 2020

The decision to go ahead with the 2020 Buxton Fringe was “more than vindicated by the rush of entries that came in” in June, according to new chair Stephen Walker.

Shielding family to perform King Lear live at home

20 July 2020

Family-run theatre company Oddsocks is to present an online comedy version of Shakespeare's King Lear which will be "as it has never been seen before".

The Great Big Radio Show online

19 July 2020

Malta's Teatru Manoel streams British musical comedy The Great Big Radio Show.

Oldham initiative launches three audio plays

19 July 2020

Oldham Coliseum, TripleC and Disabled Artists Networking Community have commissioned three short audio plays.

Ten Nights in Bolton

19 July 2020

Bolton Octagon has released audio recordings of 10 monologues—winners of the One Night In Bolton creative writing competition.

RSC actors have the answer for homework questions

19 July 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company has revealed that more than 100,000 young people have received advice on performing and studying Shakespeare from RSC actors and alumni as part of its Homework Help initiative.

Grace O’Leary as Niamh O’Donovan in The White Swan

Ride The White Swan on Youtube

19 July 2020

The White Swan is a monologue performance by writer, storyliner, director and producer Grace O’Leary.

Midlands writers selected for digital TV series

18 July 2020

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre and Strictly Arts Theatre Company have announced the six Midlands-based writers who will develop a digital TV series, SeaView.

Promoting positive mental health: Shifting the Dial

Birmingham REP Fix It events go online

16 July 2020

Birmingham REP and Lightpost Company have begun a series of free online events, Fix It: Time to Breathe, created in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Dorkas Ashar and Christopher Brookes in The Black Veil

Nottingham Classic Thriller Season goes online

15 July 2020

Two events are to be made available online as part of the annual Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham's Theatre Royal which has been running since 1986.

NDCWales shows Christopher Bruce’s Dream

14 July 2020

On the day that should have been the Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Olympics in Japan, National Dance Company Wales will be showing its 23-minute film of Dream, by Christopher Bruce CBE on Facebook and YouTube.

World's largest arts festival goes online

13 July 2020

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced a 2020 digital programme, with a Crowdfunder partnership and streaming alternatives.

ENB Cinderella Games online première

12 July 2020

Cinderella Games, a film project inspired by Christopher Wheeldon’s production of Prokofiev's Cinderella for English National Ballet, is to be shown online

Gecko's Institute on BBC Four

10 July 2020

Gecko, BBC Arts, The Space and Illuminations have collaborated on an adaptation of theatre show Institute for BBC Four, broadcast as part of BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine.

Swan Lake becomes a bathtub ballet

10 July 2020

Ballet dancers perform from their bathtubs all over the world in Swan Lake Bath Ballet film by Corey Baker, available on BBC iPlayer as part of BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine.

Manch UK: new virtual platform from South Asian dance community

10 July 2020

A new virtual platform, Manch UK, shares stories and short performances from the South Asian dance community from artists including Mavin Khoo, Aakash Odedra, Vidya Patel, Sonia Sabri and Subathra Subramaniam.

Rosie Kay in new solo work: Absolute Solo II.

9 July 2020

Award-winning choreographer Rosie Kay is returning to the stage after five years in her new solo work as part of a triple bill: Absolute Solo II, 21 years on from her first ever solo show Absolute Solo.

Hope Mill to stream new Olympia Dukakis documentary

7 July 2020

Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre is to livestream the UK première of Olympia, a new documentary celebrating the career of stage and screen icon Olympia Dukakis, for free.

Cumbrian writers selected for script development

7 July 2020

Theatre by the Lake and Paines Plough have announced the four Cumbrian writers who have been commissioned under their Come to Where I Am project.

Medieval murder-mystery musical at Buxton Fringe

7 July 2020

A medieval story of murder, deception and love set in Chesterfield in the aftermath of a global pandemic is to be told at Buxton Fringe.

Peak Voices sing online for Buxton Fringe

7 July 2020

Professional Derbyshire-based singing group Peak Voices is presenting an hour-long online production of their show One Song More as part of Buxton Fringe.

Opera North's Tragedy on BBC iPlayer

7 July 2020

Capturing the backstage world during a performance of La traviata by Opera North, Tragedy, by artist and film-maker Lynne Marsh, is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

Gogol’s madman diary gets second Buxton reading

6 July 2020

Damn Cheek Productions is to repeat its online reading of Kelvin Segger’s dramatisation of Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman as part of Buxton Fringe.

Three new Friday premières from Royal Opera House

6 July 2020

The Royal Opera House continues its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with three new productions: Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet, 2019), Faust (The Royal Opera, 2019) and The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet, 2020).

Barbican to stream Rhiannon Faith’s Drowntown Lockdown

6 July 2020

A film prologue to Rhiannon Faith's Drowntown, which was set to be on a UK tour now including a visit to the Barbican, will be screened online followed by the trailer for the stage show and a Q&A discussion.

Godspell 50th anniversary concert

6 July 2020

Stars record concert performance to mark half a century of Stephen Schwartz’s hit musical Godspell.

Bard From The Barn—from monologues to duologues

5 July 2020

West End stars partner drama school graduates in the second series of Bard from the Barn.

Tales from the Front Line

5 July 2020

Talawa Theatre Company is creating a series of verbatim pieces with black frontline workers.

Keswick theatre offers online play reading group, exhibition and networking

3 July 2020

Keswick's Theatre by the Lake has announced a programme of free activities while it is closed: the TBTL play reading club, Cumbrian Creatives—a network for local artists—and a community exhibition.

Based on a series of interviews: The Landscape Jukebox

Landscape Jukebox celebrates Peak District beauty

3 July 2020

A “theatrical project that investigates the different ways in which people think” and which is a celebration of the Peak District has been created especially for Buxton Fringe.

Crookes makes Buxton debut with improvised tap

3 July 2020

Rebecca Crookes is to make her Buxton Fringe debut with Time to Tap, a tap performance with live music by Kyle Lamley.

ENB and Royal Ballet Schools in online World Ballet School Day

3 July 2020

English National Ballet School and The Royal Ballet School will take part in the inaugural World Ballet School Day, to be streamed online on Tuesday 7 July from 12 noon.

Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance available online

3 July 2020

A dance film of Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance, created for Greenwich’s historic Borough Hall in 2009, will be free to view until 22 July 2020.

Blackboard play is class act for Buxton Fringe

2 July 2020

Blackboard Theatre is to present for Buxton Fringe a live video recording of a read-through of Special Measures, a tour of which was cut short due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Three’s Company’s comedy podcast for Buxton Fringe

1 July 2020

Three’s Company, which has been taking productions to Buxton Fringe for 16 years, is offering a new online comedy podcast for the 2020 festival.

Sonia Sabri Company which took part in the Midsummer Festival

Midsummer online festival hailed a “success”

1 July 2020

Thousands of arts and culture lovers tuned in online to Midsummer Festival, a free one-day festival celebrating arts and culture in the West Midlands.

“Highly unusual” Buxton Fringe goes ahead

27 June 2020

Almost 90 entries have been received for the 2020 “highly unusual” Buxton Fringe, described by the organisers as a “wonderful show of faith, creativity and ingenuity from our loyal and tireless performers”.

Providing tangible support: Katie Walters of Radical Body

Online platform set up for ill and disabled artists

27 June 2020

Coventry-based disability arts organisation Radical Body has started an online platform designed to connect and support disabled and chronically ill artists and audiences.

Gogol’s madman diary brought to life at Buxton

27 June 2020

Damn Cheek Productions is to present an online reading of Kelvin Segger’s dramatisation of Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman at Buxton Fringe.

Sylphide and Cinders for ENB at Home in July

27 June 2020

The final instalment of English National Ballet’s ENB at Home programme will feature La Sylphide and Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella.

Hussey clowns about in isolation at Buxton Fringe

27 June 2020

Bath Spa University graduate Frank Hussey has entered his one-man online mini-series, A Clown Named Curly in isolation, for the Buxton Fringe.

SJD Shorts: Shobana Jeyasingh's works online

26 June 2020

Shobana Jeyasingh has worked with filmmakers Terry Braun and Gary Tanner on new short films for small screens based on raw footage of her original stage works, SJD Shorts.

Warwick students take up challenge to save theatres

25 June 2020

Students from the University of Warwick in Coventry have organised a national fundraising campaign to help support the arts industry.

RSC playmaking festival for schools goes online

25 June 2020

More than 100 young people from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s associate schools programme are to share a series of original digital responses to Shakespeare’s plays.

Darcey Bussell confirmed for U.Dance festival

21 June 2020

Dame Darcey Bussell, Strictly Come Dancing’s Aljaž Skorjanec and Janette Manrara, Boy Blue’s Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy, The Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae and West End star Layton Williams are confirmed in the line-up for U.Dance Digital 2020.

Birmingham Opera goes online this summer

21 June 2020

Birmingham Opera Company has announced productions to be shown online in the coming months, including Tippett’s The Ice Break, Stockhausen’s Mittwoch Aus Licht / Wednesday from Light and Verdi’s Othello.

Buxton International Festival goes online

19 June 2020

Organisers of the 2020 Buxton International Festival have released details of a replacement digital season which has been curated by artistic director Adrian Kelly and Vicky Dawson, the book festival director.

Youngsters to take part in digital festival

19 June 2020

Independent production studio China Plate and Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre are to stage a digital festival which has been programmed by, with and for 16- to 21-year-olds.

Revival: two theatres unite for online discussions

19 June 2020

Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East are to co-produce The Revival, a series of online discussions reuniting the people behind some of the most popular productions at each theatre in recent years.

Vamos wins BBC Culture in Quarantine commission

18 June 2020

Vamos Theatre, “the UK’s leading full mask theatre company”, has beaten off competition from more than 1,600 applicants to win a BBC Culture in Quarantine commission.

Jeyasingh's TooMortal to be screened

18 June 2020

Shobana Jeyasingh’s 2012 work TooMortal is being screened as part of the company’s SJD Shorts series.

Dancing at Dusk with Bausch's Rite of Spring

18 June 2020

The next Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage offering is Dancing at Dusk—A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring.

Home comforts as Oddsocks tackles Shakespeare’s Dream

18 June 2020

Family-run touring theatre company Oddsocks Productions is to present a second Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, from its home.

Sci-fi drama: chance for emerging Midlands writers

16 June 2020

Up to seven up-and-coming writers are to get the chance to work on a digital TV series, SeaView, an original science-fiction drama drawing on the experiences of working-class communities in the West Midlands.

North East artists create 24-hour loneliness project

15 June 2020

Artists from across the North East join in creating a 24-hour project about loneliness before and during the pandemic.

Writing micro-commissions from Alphabetti

15 June 2020

Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre is offering 9 micro-commissions to under-represented writers.

New Perspectives releases Rudkin play cycle

15 June 2020

East Midlands theatre company New Perspectives is to release PlacePrints, an audio cycle of short plays written by David Rudkin which have been recorded over the past four years.

Singer devotes his birthday to his home theatre

14 June 2020

Singer Joe McElderry is devoting his 29th birthday to raising funds for his home theatre.

Toby Jones and Owen Teale star in winning short

14 June 2020

Bitter Pill's second podcast play, A Case Of Mistaken Identity written by Gus Crotty, is now available and stars Toby Jones and Owen Teale.

Ballet and opera resumes live from Covent Garden

13 June 2020

The Live from Covent Garden series marks the first live performances of opera and ballet at the Royal Opera House since the building closed on 17 March.

Hamlet: RSC 2016 production to be shown on BBC Four

12 June 2020

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 production of Hamlet featuring Paapa Essiedu in the title role will be broadcast on BBC Four as part of the Culture in Quarantine series on Sunday 21 June at 9PM.

New season of online work from Stan’s Cafe

12 June 2020

Birmingham-based Stan’s Cafe has revealed a new season of work which will be available online including a new play and an updated version of a work which was originally staged in 2013.

Towards Vivencia launches online Summer Intensive training for dancers

12 June 2020

The first ever Towards Vivencia Summer Intensive will be a festival that funds dancers to participate, with a line-up of teachers and choreographers to share their expertise with dancers worldwide.

“Interactive, hyper-technological performance”: Conduit

Chronic Insanity’s shows to go online

12 June 2020

Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity is to release three productions online over a three-month period.

A Celebration of Aldeburgh Festivals

12 June 2020

Britten on Camera, Struan Leslie’s Illuminations, Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, archive performances from Aldeburgh Festival and audience memories from its 72 festivals will be part of BBC Arts' Culture in Quarantine.

NDCWales streams Ed Myhill’s Clapping

12 June 2020

National Dance Company Wales has announced its next live-streamed premiere, Ed Myhill’s Clapping.

Buxton Fringe to offer phone performances

11 June 2020

Buxton Fringe, which has reported some “inevitable” cancellations, has 60 entries, many of them online, and has come up with a novel idea for those who do not have access to the Internet.

Motionhouse’s dance-circus production WILD

West Midlands to host Midsummer Festival

11 June 2020

A free, one-day online festival celebrating arts and culture in the West Midlands is to feature performances never seen before.

Birmingham REP holds weekly Zoom chats

9 June 2020

Birmingham REP has begun a series of free conversations, insights and masterclasses so that artists, creators, actors and audiences can ask questions and exchange ideas.

BBC streams Corey Baker Dance film Lying Together

8 June 2020

Hong Kong dance film Lying Together is now available via BBC Arts and United Nations Environment Programme’s YouTube channel.

Fuel & The Place present Requardt and Rosenberg's Deadclub

7 June 2020

Fuel and The Place will offer the rare chance to experience Frauke Requardt and David Rosenberg's 2017 DeadClub.

Kaufmann, Ashton and Szymanowski among latest from ROH online

7 June 2020

The latest online releases from Royal Opera House include a Jonas Kaufmann documentary Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, the first Live from Covent Garden concert and Szymanowski's King Roger.

Missing new writing

7 June 2020

Audiences and playwrights get more of the Bare E-Ssentials during lockdown.

Protein celebrates 21 years with digital programme

7 June 2020

Luca Silvestrini's Protein Dance is launching a new digital programme as part of its Protein 21 celebrations.

New online kids’ play commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse

6 June 2020

Nottingham Playhouse has commissioned Noah and the Peacock, a new form of live, at-home theatre written and created especially for Zoom by Jeff James.

Vertigo's Noir adapted into free audio drama

5 June 2020

Manchester-based Vertigo Theatre Productions hopes to raise money for Acting for Others in the UK and The Actors Fund in the US by reviving its 2017 hit play Noir by Craig Hepworth adapted into a two-hour audio play.

Oldham Coliseum’s 'Mini-Podcast Series' continues to present new work

5 June 2020

For each episode of its Mini-Podcast Series, Oldham Coliseum has invited writers to respond to a theme within a specified length, with pieces ranging from 100 words to a 20-minute short audio-play.

Les Dennis as Jigsy in Royal Court Liverpool online rerun

5 June 2020

Les Dennis has recorded a performance of Tony Staveacre's one-man show Jigsy which will be made available for free on the Liverpool Royal Court YouTube channel.

HOME announces new Homemakers

5 June 2020

Five new Homemakers, a series of online works presented by HOME Manchester alongside national partners, are now available.

Flo's fear of lockdown FOMO in online musical comedy short

5 June 2020

Writer-composer Zara Nunn's FLOMO, which she has co-directed with Joyce Branagh, is "a cautionary tale about the perils of content overload in a digital but socially isolated age."

Artists give career insights in Derby Theatre programme

5 June 2020

Derby Theatre has started an online programme of artist-led activities, Futures Unlocked, for 15- to 25-year-olds.

Celebrating Durham Theatre

5 June 2020

Durham’s Gala Theatre and Durham University join together in an online festival of local theatre talent.

Nottingham’s Madness of George III to be shown online

4 June 2020

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

31 May 2020

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

30 May 2020

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

“Packed with punk attitude”: Reasons to be Cheerful

Belgrade puts two shows online for free

30 May 2020

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

BalletBoyz Deluxe on BBC4

24 May 2020

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

24 May 2020

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

24 May 2020

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

Bespoke online content: available at Curve during lockdown

Curve to stay shut until October

22 May 2020

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

Thousands tune in to Oddsocks’ Macbeth

20 May 2020

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

17 May 2020

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

Home-made monologue earns praise

17 May 2020

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

Fame awaits online

17 May 2020

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

Bush Theatre lockdown photo challenge

17 May 2020

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

More free Royal Opera and Royal Ballet productions online

16 May 2020

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

16 May 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: smaller in 2020 than 2019

Buxton Fringe goes ahead outdoor and online

16 May 2020

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

16 May 2020

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

16 May 2020

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

Charlotte Chiew and Mei Mac in Under the Umbrella

Belgrade to stream Under the Umbrella

15 May 2020

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

Richard Alston new web site

15 May 2020

Richard Alston new web site and cheering article.

Young people reimagine the future in Derby

15 May 2020

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.

Tamara Rojo in Song of the Earth at The Royal Ballet

Renée Fleming and Tamara Rojo in conversation

15 May 2020

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.

The cast of Lightpost’s 2019 production Scenes From A Brummie Iliad, based on Homer’s epic poem

Birmingham’s Lightpost appoints new leaders

15 May 2020

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

13 May 2020

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

12 May 2020

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

Hymne a L' Amour: a taster of the postponed show

Trio unite to sing number from Nottingham show Piaf

12 May 2020

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

11 May 2020

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

Theatr Clwyd dance for Parkinson's workshops

11 May 2020

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

11 May 2020

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

Border Crossings' international work online

10 May 2020

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

Yard Online—and on the phone

10 May 2020

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

10 May 2020

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

More Ballet Black online

10 May 2020

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

Protein at 21 streams Border Tales

7 May 2020

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

Working with young people during lockdown

7 May 2020

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

5 May 2020

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

3 May 2020

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

3 May 2020

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

3 May 2020

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

1 May 2020

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

30 April 2020

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

30 April 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.

Lisa Welham and Aaron Vickers on location filming Within Her Eyes

James Cousins Company releases short films online

30 April 2020

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

29 April 2020

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

BE FESTIVAL directors Miguel Oyarzun and Isla Aguilar

Birmingham European festival goes online

29 April 2020

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

27 April 2020

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

27 April 2020

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

Southwark Playhouse—Southwark Stayhouse

27 April 2020

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

26 April 2020

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.

Video from Elmhurst Ballet School and English National Ballet School

Two ballet schools share message of solidarity and hope

26 April 2020

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.

Garry Cooper (Danny) and the cast of the 2015 Derby Theatre production of Brassed Off

Derby Theatre stays connected online

25 April 2020

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

25 April 2020

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

25 April 2020

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

24 April 2020

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

“Creative, surprising and inspiring” contributions: #ShareYourShakespeare

Over 1,000 people share their Shakespeare

23 April 2020

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

21 April 2020

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

More NDC Wales performances online

21 April 2020

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

21 April 2020

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

21 April 2020

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

19 April 2020

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

19 April 2020

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

19 April 2020

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

19 April 2020

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

19 April 2020

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

Belgrade makes shows available online

18 April 2020

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

18 April 2020

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

18 April 2020

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

18 April 2020

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

New Nottingham Playhouse podcast series

17 April 2020

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

17 April 2020

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

16 April 2020

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

16 April 2020

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

16 April 2020

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

16 April 2020

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

16 April 2020

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

15 April 2020

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

15 April 2020

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

15 April 2020

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

14 April 2020

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

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Nutcracker online

14 April 2020

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

14 April 2020

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

13 April 2020

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

iPlayer première for BAC's new film

12 April 2020

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

12 April 2020

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

12 April 2020

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

Online Fringe Festival launched

12 April 2020

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

ENB Philharmonic thanks the NHS

9 April 2020

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

9 April 2020

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

7 April 2020

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

Sadler’s Wells adds Rain to Digital Stage

7 April 2020

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

7 April 2020

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

Quantum Magic Lab's free magic lessons

6 April 2020

Entertainment for bored children sorted by magic—literally!

Cirque Du Soleil online show

5 April 2020

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

Perform your own panto

5 April 2020

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

5 April 2020

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

5 April 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

5 April 2020

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.

Cathy Tyson (Lady Bracknell) and Fela Lufadeju (John Worthing)

Curve makes Earnest play available online

5 April 2020

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

5 April 2020

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

3 April 2020

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

Interactive circus classes for everyone

3 April 2020

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

2 April 2020

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

2 April 2020

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

1 April 2020

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

30 March 2020

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

29 March 2020

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

29 March 2020

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

29 March 2020

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

29 March 2020

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

Leave A Light On: week 2 line-up

29 March 2020

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

28 March 2020

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

27 March 2020

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

27 March 2020

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

27 March 2020

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

26 March 2020

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

26 March 2020

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

26 March 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

26 March 2020

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

25 March 2020

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

24 March 2020

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

24 March 2020

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

24 March 2020

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

23 March 2020

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

23 March 2020

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

23 March 2020

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

20 March 2020

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

20 March 2020

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

20 March 2020

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

20 March 2020

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

20 March 2020

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

19 March 2020

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

19 March 2020

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

19 March 2020

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

18 March 2020

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

18 March 2020

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

18 March 2020

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

17 March 2020

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.

Online theatre reviews

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

Octagon Theatre Bolton and Guildford Shakespeare Company

24 September to 3 October 2020

Hofesh Shechter's Untitled

Choreography, music and direction by Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter Company

Lanterns Studio Theatre

24 to 25 September 2020

In a Nutshell

Ben Duke

Lost Dog

The Place

23 September to 22 October 2020

Emily Suzuki and Victor Prigent in Satanella

Emerging Dancer 2020

English National Ballet

Holloway Production Studio at London City Island

22 to 29 September 2020

La Rondine

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Adami

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 21 September 2020

Noël Coward’s Marvellous Party

Noël Coward

The Noël Coward Foundation

Stream.Theatre

20 September to 4 October 2020

Norma

Vincenzo Bellini, libretto by Felice Romani

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 20 September 2020

L’Elisir d’Amore

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Felice Romani

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 19 September 2020

La Cenerentola

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 17 September 2020

Grand Finale

Choreography & music Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter Company

Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage

17 to 24 September 2020

Le Comte Ory

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Eugene Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poi...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 15 September 2020

The Revenger's Tragedy

A new version by Jesse Berger, freely adapted from the original text by Thoma...

Red Bull Theater

Red Bull Theater, New York

14 to 18 September 2020

Werther

Jules Massenet, Libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hautmann, ...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 13 September 2020

Les Troyens

Hector Berlioz based on Virgil’s Aeneid

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 12 September 2020

Rose

Martin Sherman

Thomas Hopkins & Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media and Hope Mill Theatre w...

10 to 12 September 2020

Pinocchio Gets Wood

James Chalmers

Nick Wyschna

The Back Room of the Star Inn, Guildford

10 to 12 September 2020

The Tempest

Thomas Adès, libretto by Meredith Oakes, based on the play by William Shakesp...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 6 September 2020

Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin, Libretto by George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward and ...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 4 September 2020

Lulu

Alban Berg

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 3 September 2020

Kathryn Hunter, Damian Lewis, Lesley Sharp, Clarke Peters, Jason Isaacs, Nyasha Hatendi, Brìan F O'Byrne and Nick Holder

The Oedipus Project

Sophocles: translated by Bryan Doerries

Theatre of War Productions

3 September 2020

Nixon in China

John Adams, Libretto by Alice Goodman

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 2 September 2020

Elektra

Richard Strauss, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 31 August 2020

Don Carlo

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francois Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle, based ...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 30 August 2020

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Richard Wagner

Glyndebourne Opera

30 August to 6 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Matterhorn

Amy Rhianne Milton

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

27 August to 9 September 2020

Godspell in Concert

Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by John Michael Tebelak

Thomas Hopkins & Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media in association with Hop...

27 to 29 August 2020

Shielders

Matilda Ibini

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

27 August to 2 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Doomsdays

Conor O’Loughlin

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

26 August to 8 September 2020

Cinderella

David Bintley, Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Birmingham Hippodrome

25 August to 1 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Rabbit Catcher

Rebecca Martin

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

25 August to 7 September 2020

Declan

Kieran Hurley

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

25 August to 3 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Contemporary Political Ethics (or, How to Cheat)

Jamie Cowan

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

24 August to 6 September 2020

52 Souls

Nat Henderson and Joe Strickland

Chronic Insanity

24 August to 6 September 2020

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pave

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 24 August 2020

Pamela Drysdale's Lockdown

Jane Hainsworth

Three Chairs and a Hat

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

The Coming Out Play

Melanie Coffey

The Farewell Girls

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Some Kind of Weasel

Jenny Stafford

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Sex, Lies & Improvisation

Rachel E Thorn and Alex Keen

Between Us Improv

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Cesare Sterbini

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 22 August 2020

Jess

Stephanie Silver

Glass Half Full

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Hollow

David Kent with music by Jeremy Williams

DK Productions (David Kent Ltd)

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

At Home with the Brontës

Joan Greening

Lemon Squeeze Productions

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Dreaming of Sexual Healing, Sort Of...

Theo Salter

Owl & Pussycat Theatre Company

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

Anything to Declare, Mr. Dennis?

Dennis Elkins

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

22 to 30 August 2020

The Turn of the Screw

Benjamin Britten, Libretto by Myfanwy Piper

Opera North

Leeds Grand Theatre

From 21 August 2020

Un Ballo in Maschera

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Somma, based on Eugene Scribe’s libretto ...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 20 August 2020

Are You Numb Yet?

Anthony and Kel Matsena

Matsena Performance Theatre

Zoo TV

19 to 24 August 2020

Loopstation

Joris Blanckaert

Ontroerend Goed

Zoo TV

17 to 24 August 2020

Luisa Miller

Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, Based on the Play Kabale und...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 16 August 2020

Now Maybe Sunbeam

Justin Maxwell

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Bye Mum

Ronnie Dorsey

Ronnie Dorsey Productions

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

The Last Clap

Nessah Muthy

Kali Theatre

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Guru of Touch: A Zoom Play

Jenny Lyn Bader

Flying Solo! & This Is Not A Theatre Company

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Meșterul Manole

Kurt Murray after the play by Luchian Blaga

Bubble Laboratory

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Front Window

Karen Louisa Linton

Owl & Pussycat Theatre Company

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Lucky 8

Stephanie Silver

Glass Half Full Theatre

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Wake & Sing

Matt Zambrano

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Stuck Like Me

Jen Wooster

PigWig Productions

[email protected]

15 to 30 August 2020

Deborah Voigt as Isolde and Robert Dean Smith as Tristan

Tristan and Isolde

Richard Wagner

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 14 August 2020

Haunted

Nia Williams

Three Chairs and a Hat

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Agrippina

George Frideric Handel, Libretto by Vincenzio Grimani

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 8 August 2020

Rehearsal Etiquette

Ferelith Kingston

Swell Theatre Company

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

The Plague Thing

Maria Kelson

Putney Theatre Company

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Glitch

Jack Jackman

Anomaly Theatre Company

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

After-Before

M J Murphy

Out of Kilter Theatre Company

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

My Light Shines On: Ghost Light

Hope Dickson Leach

National Theatre of Scotland

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

From 8 August 2020

At the Ghostlight

J J Leppink

Blue Fire Theatre Co.

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Play in Your Bathtub

Erin B Mee

Flying Solo! & This Is Not A Theatre Company

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Being Posy

Posy O'Rourke

Four in a Bed Theatre

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Carmina Burana (excerpts)

Carl Orff

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

From 8 August 2020

Detachment

A G Anderson

Blueberry Goose Theatre Group

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

After the Turn: The Mystery of Bly Manor

Henry James adapted by George Cooper and Ellie Hardwick

Nine Knocks Theatre

[email protected]

8 to 31 August 2020

The Murder(ed) Musketeers

Michael Spencer

Highly Suspect

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Spring + Awakening

Tara Anegada based on ‘Spring Awakening; A Children’s Tragedy’ by Frank Wedekind

The Nottingham New Theatre

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Those Girls

Sam Mitchell incorporating ‘How We Survive (Girlhood)’ by Abigail Cook

JAM Productions

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

The Writings on the Wallpaper

Paper Dolls Theatre

[email protected]

8 to 30 August 2020

Madama Butterfly

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

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 6 August 2020

Watching Rosie

Louise Coulthard

Original Theatre Company

6 August to 30 September 2020

Jekyll and Hyde

Drew McOnie

The Old Vic

5 to 12 August 2020

Simon Boccanegra

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pave and Arrigo Boito

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 5 August 2020

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Jacques Offenbach, Libretto by Jules Barbier

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 4 August 2020

Die Walküre

Richard Wagner

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 2 August 2020

Ernani

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pave

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 1 August 2020

Good Dog

Arinzé Kene, adapted by Natalie Ibu

Tiata Fahodzi

The Space

From 1 August 2020

Her and Her

Jade Anouka with music by Grace Savage

BBC

BBC iPlayer

31 July 2020 to 30 July 2021

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia

Steven Berkoff

Greenwich Theatre

31 July to 14 August 2020

Il Trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 30 July 2020

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 29 July 2020

George Gagnidze, Marcelo Álvarez and Karita Mattila

Tosca

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

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 28 July 2020

Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the novel by Sir...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 27 July 2020

La Fanciulla del West

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarni, based on the...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 26 July 2020

Lise Davidsen (Leonore) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco)

Fidelio

Ludwig van Beethoven, libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner, revised by Stephan von...

The Royal Opera

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

26 July 2020 to 25 July 2021

Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 25 July 2020

Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Arrigo Boito, Based on the Play by William Shakes...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 24 July 2020

Romeo et Juliette

Charles Gounod, Libtretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 23 July 2020

An Ordinary Woman

Ray Castleton

Hand on the Tap

23 July 2020

Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pave and Andrea Maffei

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 22 July 2020

Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 21 July 2020

Strasbourg 1518

Jonathan Glazer

Artangel and Sadler’s Wells and Academy Films for BBC Films and BBC Arts.

BBC2 and iPlayer

20 July to 18 August 2020

Institute

Amit Lahav

Gecko

BBC4 and iPlayer

19 July to 16 August 2020

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

National Theatre

National Theatre Live

16 to 23 July 2020

Wozzeck

Alban Berg

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 16 July 2020

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

16 July to 6 August 2020

Standby / She Remembers

Choreography Paul Lightfoot, Sol Léon

Nederlands Dans Theater 1 & 2

15 July to 10 August 2020

Turandot

Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simon, Based on a play...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 15 July 2020

Manon Lescaut

Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by Domenico Oliva, Giuilo Ricordi, Luigi Illica and...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 13 July 2020

Three Voices

Debbie Cannon

From 13 July 2020

Othello

William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company

BBC4 and iPlayer

12 July to 9 August 2020

English National Ballet School’s Virtual Summer Performance

Choreography Annabella Lopez Ochoa, Didy Veldman, Andrew McNicol

English National Ballet School / Post production BalletBoyz and Manilla Produ...

11 July to 11 August 2020

I Puritani

Vincenzo Bellini, libretto by Carlo Pepoli

Oper Stuttgart

Staatsoper Stuttgart

10 July to 9 October 2020

Eugene Onegin

Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Libretto by Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky, B...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 10 July 2020

Carousel

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

New York Philharmonic

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York

10 July to 8 September 2020

The Deep Blue Sea

Terence Rattigan

National Theatre

National Theatre Live

9 to 16 July 2020

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

From 9 July 2020

Francesca da Rimini

Ricardo Zandonai, libretto by Tito Ricardi, a shortened version of the play b...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 9 July 2020

Drowntown Lockdown

Rhiannon Faith Company

Rhiannon Faith, Big Egg and Barbican

From 9 July 2020

The Line

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

The Public Theater

8 July to 4 August 2020

World Ballet School Day & A Screen Apart

Choreography Didy Veldman and others

The Australian Ballet School / Boston Ballet School / Canada’s National Balle...

7 July to 6 August 2020

Il Trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 7 July 2020

The New Morality

Harold Chapin

Mint Theater

The Mint Theater, New York

6 to 19 July 2020

Women Without Men

Hazel Ellis

Mint Theater

The Mint Theater, New York

6 to 19 July 2020

La Bohème

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

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 6 July 2020

The Fatal Weakness

George Kelly

Mint Theater

The Mint Theater, New York

6 to 19 July 2020

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

The Royal Shakespeare Company

BBC4 and iPlayer

5 July to 2 August 2020

La Donna del Lago

Gioachino Rossini, Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottila

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 5 July 2020

Don Pasquale

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 4 July 2020

Hamilton

Book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by Alexander Hamilton ...

Public Theater

Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York / Disney+

From 3 July 2020

Blueprint Medea

Julia Pascal

Pascal Theatre Company with Neil McPherson for Finborough Theatre

Finborough Theatre

2 July to 2 September 2020

Les Blancs

Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff

National Theatre

National Theatre Live

2 to 9 July 2020

The Nose

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, libretto by the composer with Yevgeny Zamyatin,...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 2 July 2020

Dancing at Dusk — A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring

Choreography by Pina Bausch, music by Igor Stravinsky

Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables

1 to 31 July 2020

Xuxu’s Revolt

Pieter Egriega

1 to 19 July 2020

Crossing the Line—the Full Story

Michael Sheath

Joanna Lavelle

1 to 19 July 2020

Root

Kellie Colbert

1 to 19 July 2020

La Fille du Régiment

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-F...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 29 June 2020

The Grinning Man

Based on Victor Hugo's novel "The Man Who Laughs " with book by Carl Grose, m...

Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic At Home

26 June to 3 July 2020

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

The Bridge Theatre

NT Live

25 June to 2 July 2020

Love You & Hate Covid

Jonny and the Baptists

Pound Arts, Corsham, Wiltshire

25 June to 16 July 2020

Falsettos

Music and lyrics by William Finn, book by William Finn and James Lapine

Lincoln Center Theater

Walter Kerr Theatre, New York

25 to 27 June 2020

The Adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

25 June to 16 July 2020

Splendid Isolation: Lockdown Drama

David Ireland, Sarah Gordon, Abbie Spallen, Owen McCafferty, Lisa McGee, Stac...

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, BBC Arts, BBC Northern Ireland

BBC iPlayer

From 25 June 2020

Talking Heads: Soldiering On

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: Her Big Chance

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: An Ordinary Woman

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: Nights in the Garden of Spain

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: The Shrine

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: Bed Amongst the Lentils

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: The Outside Dog

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: A Chip in the Sugar

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: Playing Sandwiches

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Talking Heads: The Hand of God

Alan Bennett

London Theatre Company

BBC iPlayer

From 23 June 2020

Four Walls

Dominic Ryan

Carrot Top Films

YouTube

From 22 June 2020

Gobstopper

Khush Chahal

Graeae Theatre Company

Graeae / YouTube

From 22 June 2020

Satyagraha

Philip Glass, Book and vocal text by Constance deJong (adapted from the "Bhag...

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

21 to 22 June 2020

Windrush: Movement of the People

Sharon Watson

Phoenix Dance Theatre

BBC4 and BBC iPlayer

21 June to 22 July 2020

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company

BBC4 and BBC iPlayer

21 June to 16 August 2020

Akhnaten

Philip Glass

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

20 to 21 June 2020

Act One

James Lapine, from the autobiography by Moss Hart

Lincoln Center Theater

Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, New York

From 19 June 2020

Noah and the Peacock

Jeff James

Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse Digital Playhouse

19 to 21 June 2020

Small Island

Adapted by Helen Edmundson, based on the novel by Andrea Levy

National Theatre

18 to 25 June 2020

King John

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

18 June to 9 July 2020

The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol, in a new version by Jeffrey Hatcher

Red Bull Theater

Red Bull Theater, New York

16 to 19 June 2020

No Milk for The Foxes

Conrad Murray & Paul Cree

Beats & Elements

Camden People's Theatre

16 June to 14 July 2020

we will we will rock you

gobscure

Graeae Theatre Company

Graeae / YouTube

From 15 June 2020

Contractions

Mike Bartlett

Deafinitely Theatre and New Diorama Theatre

New Diorama Theatre

15 June to 15 July 2020

The Mikvah Project

Josh Azouz

Orange Tree Theatre / Lockdown Theatre Festival

Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

14 June to 12 July 2020

Shoe Lady

E V Crowe

The Royal Court / Reduced Listening / Lockdown Theatre Festival

BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds

13 June to 11 July 2020

Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom

Justin Audibert

Unicorn Theatre and Illuminations

Unicorn Theatre on YouTube and The Guardian web site

13 June to 4 July 2020

Coppélia

Production and choreography by Ninette de Valois, music by Leo Delibes, scena...

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

From 12 June 2020

The Madness of George III

Alan Bennett

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company and National Theatre Live

Nottingham Playhouse

11 to 18 June 2020

Staged

Simon Evans

BBC

BBC iPlayer

From 10 June 2020

The Mountaintop

Katori Hall

JMK Trust and Young Vic in association with Desara Bosnja

Royal Exchange Theatre YouTube

10 to 22 June 2020

The White Swan

Grace O’Leary

Foraois Productions

From 10 June 2020

The Skating Rink

Composed by David Sawer, libretto by Rory Mullarky

Garsington Opera

From 9 June 2020

Green Fingers

Daisy Higman

Graeae

From 8 June 2020

Otello

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on the play by William Shakes...

Metropolitan Opera House

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 7 June 2020

Adventures With The Painted People

David Greig

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, BBC Arts, Naked Productions in association with T...

BBC Radio 3

From 7 June 2020

Anansi the Spider Re-spun 2: Anansi and the Two Dinners

Justin Audibert

Unicorn Theatre and Illuminations

Unicorn Theatre on YouTube and The Guardian

6 June to 4 July 2020

Jane Clegg

St John Irvine

Andrew Maunder in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre

Finborough Theatre

5 June to 5 August 2020

Jigsy

Tony Staveacre

Royal Court Theatre Liverpool

From 5 June 2020

The Exterminating Angel

Thomas Adès, libretto by Tom Cairns

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera, New York

From 5 June 2020

FLOMO

Zara Nunn

From 5 June 2020

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

Bristol Old Vic At Home and Your Old Vic

Old Vic Theatre

5 to 11 June 2020

Coriolanus

William Shakespere

National Theatre

4 to 10 June 2020

A School for Fools

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

Belarus Free Theatre

Assorted locations in Minsk, Belarus

1 June to 9 July 2020

Parasite

Kathryn Golding 金葉

Graeae Theatre Company

1 to 29 June 2020

Dracula

Bram Stoker, adapted by David Nixon

Northern Ballet

BBC4 and iPlayer

31 May 2020 to 30 May 2021

Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Brother Anansi and Brother Snake

Justin Audibert

Unicorn Theatre

Unicorn Theatre on YouTube and The Guardian

30 May to 4 July 2020

The Cellist

Choreography by Cathy Marston, music by Philip Feeney

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

29 May to 11 June 2020

This House

James Graham

National Theatre

28 May to 3 June 2020

Love’s Labour’s Lost

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

From 28 May 2020

Unprecedented

James Graham, Charlene James, John Donnelly, Tim Price, Anna Maloney, April d...

Headlong, Century Films and BBC Culture in Quarantine

26 May 2020 to 29 May 2021

When Everything's Normal Will You Forget?

Ink Asher Hemp

Graeae

25 May to 29 June 2020

Anno Domino

Alan Ayckbourn

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

25 May to 25 June 2020

La Damnation de Faust

Hector Berlioz

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera, New York

From 25 May 2020

Revisor

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

Kidd Pivot Productions

BBC4 and BBC iPlayer

24 May 2020 to 25 April 2021

We Found a Hat

Jon Klassen

Little Angel Theatre

24 May to 30 June 2020

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera, New York

From 22 May 2020

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

Young Vic Theatre

Young Vic Theatre / National Theatre Live

21 to 27 May 2020

A Journey and a Half

Shahid Iqbal Khan

Graeae

18 May to 29 June 2020

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

The Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 17 May 2020

Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera, New York

From 16 May 2020

Pipeline

Dominique Morisseau

Lincoln Center Theater

Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, New York

From 15 May 2020

The Tempest

Thomas Adès, libretto by Meredith Oakes

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera, New York

From 14 May 2020

Barber Shop Chronicles

Inua Ellams

National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse

Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre

14 to 21 May 2020

Here/Not Here

Jonzi D with music by Torben Lars Sylvest

Bim Ajadi, Film 4 / BSL Zone

11 May 2020

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Globe

11 May to 26 July 2020

Cooped Up

Adam Fenton

Graeae

11 May to 29 June 2020

The Voyage of the St Louis

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

BBC Radio 4

Released 9 May 2020

Alexander Knox (Charlie), Jenny Lee (Janet)

It Is Easy To Be Dead

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

Bréon George Rydell in association with Amanda Castro for the Finborough Theatre

Finborough Theatre

8 May to 7 July 2020

Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto and Ingvar Wixell

La Bohème

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

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 8 May 2020

Martin Jarvis, John Scherer and Don Stephenson

By Jeeves

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

The Shows Must Go On

8 to 10 May 2020

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

National Theatre

7 to 14 May 2020

Stories from Home

Ines Sampaio, David Parkin, Tia Chand-Corey

Spark Arts for Children

6 May to 17 June 2020

Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel

Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 5 May 2020

The Two Noble Kinsmen

John Fletcher and William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Globe

Shakespeare's Globe

4 to 17 May 2020

Specs of Light

Hannah Treadaway

Graeae

4 May to 29 June 2020

This Is Not My Hat

Jon Klassen

Little Angel Theatre

3 May to 30 June 2020

A Separate Peace

Tom Stoppard

The Remote Read

2 May 2020

The Winter's Tale

Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

1 May to 1 June 2020

The Good Book

James Phillips

Slung Low / Leeds People's Theatre

From 1 May 2020

Coriolanus

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario and Ex Machina

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

From 30 April 2020

Frankenstein

Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley

National Theatre

Olivier Theatre / NT Theatre at Home

30 April to 7 May 2020

Otherly Love

Brian Lonsdale

Coronavirus Theatre Club

From 29 April 2020

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

Stephen Sondheim

Broadway.com

From 27 April 2020

When We Got Sick

Jamie Hale

Graeae

27 April to 29 June 2020

Some Enchanted Evening

Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Hope Mill Theatre

26 April to 3 May 2020

New Speak Re-imagined

Various

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

24 April to 22 May 2020

Gloriana

Benjamin Britten, libretto by William Plomer

The Royal Opera

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

24 April to 24 May 2020

Love Never Dies

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

The Shows Must Go On / Universal

Regent Theatre, Melbourne

24 to 26 April 2020

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Royal Shakespeare Company

BBC4 and iPlayer

23 April to 2 August 2020

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

23 April to 14 May 2020

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The Royal Shakespeare Company

BBC Four and BBC iPlayer

23 April to 9 August 2020

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

National Theatre

National Theatre Live

23 to 30 April 2020

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company

23 April to 22 August 2020

Broken Wings

Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Music by Peter Salem

English National Ballet

Sadler's Wells

22 to 24 April 2020

Orlando

Alice Birch, freely adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf

Schaubühne

Schaubühne, Berlin

22 April 2020

Flesh

Anita Kelly

Graeae

20 April to 29 June 2020

Madama Butterfly

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

Met on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 18 April 2020

The Phantom of The Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Really Useful Company

Royal Albert Hall

17 to 18 April 2020

Night of The Living Dead™ - Remix

imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse

From 17 April 2020

The Thread

Artistic direction and choreography by Russell Maliphant, music by Vangelis

Lavris Productions, Athens

Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

17 to 24 April 2020

The Metamorphosis

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

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

17 to 24 April 2020

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Bryony Lavery

National Theatre

16 to 23 April 2020

Amsterdam

Maya Arad Yasur

Actors Touring Company/Orange Tree Theatre

Orange Tree Theatre

From 15 April 2020

Drawing the Line

Howard Brenton

Hampstead Theatre

The Guardian and Hampstead Theatre

13 to 19 April 2020

I Want My Hat Back

Jon Klassen

Little Angel Theatre

13 April to 30 June 2020

Kelli O’Hara, Christopher Maltman, Adam Plachetka , Ben Bliss, Serena Malfi and Amanda Majeski

Così Fan Tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 13 April 2020

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Soho Theatre in association with National Theatre Live

Soho Theatre

12 to 26 April 2020

Wise Children

Angela Carter adapted by Emma Rice

Wise Children

York Theatre Royal / BBC iPlayer

11 April to 11 June 2020

Bella Figura

Yasmina Reza

Schaubühne

Schaubühne, Berlin

11 April 2020

The Way Out

Suri Krishnamma, Nichola Mark Harding and Omid Djalili

Battersea Arts Centre and BBC Arts

BBC4 and BBC iPlayer

11 April 2020 to 10 March 2021

Così Fan Tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

The Royal Opera

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

10 April to 10 May 2020

Crossings

Deirdre Kinahan

Pentabus Theatre

Lustleigh Village Hall, South Devon

9 April to 3 July 2020

Left of stairs: Clare Burt as Ada Harris Right of stairs: Joanna Riding as Madame Cobert and Mark Meadows as the Marquis with the company at the House of Dior

Flowers for Mrs Harris

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

Chichester Festival Theatre

9 April to 8 May 2020

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Sally Cookson

National Theatre with Bristol Old Vic

9 to 16 April 2020

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

7 April 2020

Twenty Twenty

Directed by Sean Gandini

Gandini Juggling

From 6 April 2020

Macbeth

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

Met Opera on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

5 to 6 April 2020

Getting Better Slowly

Nick Wood

Adam Pownall

Lincoln Drill Hall

From 3 April 2020

James Corden (Francis) and Oliver Chris (Stanley)

One Man, Two Guvnors

Richard Bean

National Theatre

2 to 9 April 2020

Isolated But Open: Voices from Across The Shutdown

Rachel De-Lahay, Anders Lustgarten

Papatango Theatre / Nick Hern Books

1 April 2020

The Price of Everything

Daniel Bye

Northern Stage

Northern Stage at St Stephen's

1 April 2020

Wild

Mike Bartlett

Hampstead Theatre

30 March to 5 April 2020

Oklahoma

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

Broadway HD / National Theatre

29 March 2020

Henry V

William Shakespeare

Built By Barn

Barn Theatre, Cirencester

27 March to 3 April 2020

BalletBoyz: Deluxe

Maxine Doyle and Xie Xin

BalletBoyz and Sadler’s Wells

BBC4 and iPlayer

27 March to 24 June 2020

Cyprus Avenue

David Ireland

Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

27 March to 26 April 2020

Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual

Adapted by Dougal Irvine from the book by Riaz Khan

Curve Theatre

Curve Theatre, Leicester

27 March to 24 April 2020

Peter and the Wolf

Music by Prokofiev, choreography by Matthew Hart

Royal Ballet School

Royal Opera House

From 27 March 2020

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Folger Theatre and Two River Theatre Company

Folger Library

25 March to 1 July 2020

Bubble

Kieran Hurley

Theatre Uncut

24 March to 30 June 2020

NewsRevue Special

Canal Café Theatre

From 19 March 2020

Check Up: Our NHS @ 70

Mark Thomas

Go Faster Stripe

Theatre Royal, Wakefield

19 to 26 March 2020

The Wind in the Willows

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

James Hendry Productions

London Palladium

From 17 March 2020

Ghost Quartet

Dave Malloy

McKittrick Hotel

From 15 March 2020

Lady of the Camellias

John Neumeier

Stuttgart Ballet

L’Opera National de Paris at the Palais Garnier

From 25 February 2020

Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts as The Circus Master

The Bartered Bride

Bedřich Smetana

Garsington Opera

Wormsley Estate

29 November 2019 to 29 May 2020

L'École des Femmes

Molière

Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

From 29 March 2019

Cinderella Games / Curing Albrecht / The Last Resort

Choreography and direction Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple

English National Ballet

From 13 January 2017

Online theatre features

Flying the flag for the fringe

22 June 2020

National news editor and London reviewer Sandra Giorgetti talks to OffWestEnd's Geoffrey Brown about the new award recognising fringe theatre work presented online.

Panto in Lockdown: A Roundup

27 May 2020

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

Let’s not confuse theatres with Theatre

4 May 2020

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

Global Community

30 April 2020

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

27 April 2020

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

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in Frankenstein

National Theatre Collection on Drama Online

25 April 2020

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

Lamentations of an isolated theatrical

19 April 2020

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

A Taste of Honey or Absolute Hell?

18 April 2020

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

10 April 2020

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

6 April 2020

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

Marquee TV, Digital Theatre and Globe Player

Established services for streaming British theatre, opera and ballet

21 March 2020

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.