Online theatre

Hushabye Mountain online

18 April 2021

Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre will work with Stream Theatre on a new online production of Hushabye Mountain by Jonathan Harvey.

Elysium's online 'afterlife' prized

18 April 2021

Manchester theatre company Elysium has won an Olwen Wymark award after taking work online in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Challenging men’s mental health stigma

16 April 2021

Macho, a new dance film from North East based Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company, confronts the stigma still attached to male mental health problems.

Sexy Lamp has switch-on in digital première

16 April 2021

Katie Arnstein’s Sexy Lamp which “shines a light on sexism in the acting industry” is to have its digital première at Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre and will also be available on demand.

Curve’s Sunset Boulevard to benefit bursary in Nairn’s name

15 April 2021

Leicester’s Curve theatre is making its streamed production of Sunset Boulevard – at Home available to view online again and all money raised will benefit the Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre.

ROH free Sleeping Beauty insight

15 April 2021

The Royal Opera House will present a free stream of a special Insight from 2016 celebrating The Sleeping Beauty.

Date for BBC broadcast of RSC’s The Winter’s Tale

14 April 2021

A filmed adaptation of The Winter's Tale is to be broadcast on BBC Four, marking the first time in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s history that a production has had a televised world première.

Cast revealed for musical theatre online festival

14 April 2021

A “spectacular company of international stars” has been confirmed for Paul Taylor-Mills’ annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021.

More COVID-19 Monologues from Elysium

14 April 2021

Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company launches five new COVID-19 Monologues online.

More videos released from free Northampton musical

11 April 2021

Royal and Derngate is to release the next four videos from a new musical, On Hostile Ground, inspired by the stories of people “affected by the government’s hostile environment policy”.

Whodunnit at the Coliseum?

9 April 2021

Oldham Coliseum Theatre and Front Room Productions present Whodunnit at the Coliseum?

My First Ballet: Swan Lake on ENB at Home

7 April 2021

An hour-long, specially adapted version of Swan Lake is now available English National Ballet’s digital platform.

Arts agency gets £84,000 from cultural recovery fund

6 April 2021

Leicester-based arts development agency ArtReach has been given £84,000 in the second round of grants from the government’s culture recovery fund.

Second helpings for Octagon

4 April 2021

The Octagon Theatre in Bolton has been awarded funding from the second round of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.

South Pacific to reopen Chichester

3 April 2021

Chichester Festival Theatre will reopen its doors with its summer musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, originally scheduled as the centrepiece of Festival 2020.

Reworking Charley

30 March 2021

Charley’s Aunt gets a make-over for charity from playwright Paul Thain.

Housing misconceptions

28 March 2021

London-based Cardboard Citizens offers verbatim work online.

Bennett pens piece for Nottingham season

26 March 2021

A specially written vignette by Alan Bennett and new writing from across the East Midlands are among events that Nottingham Playhouse is making available online in Spring Loaded.

RSC serves up its first in-house podcast

25 March 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its first in-house podcast, Interval Drinks, bringing together members of the RSC's 2020–21 acting company with “inspirational personalities from the company's history”.

Live theatre to be “more accessible” says theatre boss

23 March 2021

Live theatre will be more accessible than ever when venues reopen, according to the director of audiences and programming at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall.

ROH to stream Royal Ballet Concerto

23 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's next live-streamed Friday Premiere will be The Royal Ballet’s Concerto (2019).

Four team up for film of new “music video” musical

20 March 2021

Metta Theatre, a production company devoted to British musical theatre, has joined with three regional venues to release Cells, a film of a new musical written and recorded during lockdown.

Musical theatre festival to start in Birmingham

20 March 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome, The Turbine Theatre and Paul Taylor-Mills have formed a partnership which will present an annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021.

English National Ballet launches new apps

19 March 2021

English National Ballet has launched new apps to deliver digital content from its online platform, ENB at Home.

Armitage and Bryars on words and music in podcast

19 March 2021

The latest podcast episode from Opera North and the University of Leeds brings together Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Gavin Bryars.

Royal Ballet's Dream streaming

19 March 2021

The Royal Opera House continues its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with The Dream.

Jack and the streamed Stalk

19 March 2021

St Helens Theatre Royal’s Easter pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk will be streamed online.

New Vic kicks off project to tackle racism

19 March 2021

A project to tackle racism and unite communities through football and the arts has kicked off in Staffordshire, with the New Vic and three other organisations aiming for a home win.

Miss Julie in Hong Kong

19 March 2021

Storyhouse in Chester is to stage a live-streamed run of Strindberg’s Miss Julie.

Mansfield Palace to stage first online performance

19 March 2021

Mansfield Palace Theatre has announced its first streamed performance, Dalloway, a one-woman drama produced by Dyad Productions.

Dance x 12

19 March 2021

Newcastle’s Dance City commemorates the twelve months since the UK first went into lockdown with Twelve.

Digital Theatre Initiative welcomes applications

15 March 2021

Digital big-hitter YouTube steps up to support the theatre industry.

Royal Opera House to open in May

11 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will open to audiences on 17 May 2021 with performances from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, new work online and an opera in 'hyper-reality'.

ENB School connects virtually with NHS patients and staff

11 March 2021

English National Ballet School has partnered with CW+ charity of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to share ballet performances with patients.

One-man Manford for Lowry

10 March 2021

Comedian and actor Jason Manford will perform an un-rehearsed, one-man show at The Lowry this Saturday.

CAN Festival immersive promenade performance online

10 March 2021

In a virtual recreation of the gallery of Two Temple Place, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon is an immersive production directed by An-Ting Chang and designed by Christine Urquhart.

Being Earnest in Huddersfield and Lancaster

10 March 2021

Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield and The Dukes, Lancaster will co-produce a digital adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.

STR lecture: Putting Britain on Point

10 March 2021

The Society for Theatre Research will present an online lecture, Putting Britain on Point: 150 Years of Teaching Dance, from V&A Curator for Dance Jane Pritchard.

Samsung spotlights competition winners in new online adverts

8 March 2021

Samsung Spotlight winners, picked by Normal People’s Paul Mescal, are Michael Lynch, Adrian Mujkanovic and Adeola Yemitan, whose entries were re-shot in 8K for Samsung’s new digital ads.

Belgrade marks International Women’s Day

8 March 2021

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has marked International Women’s Day 2021 by giving a platform to “some of the city’s most inspiring women” who have helped support communities over the past 12 months.

Women's Day celebration for Exchange

7 March 2021

After briefly toying with the title Oh Womxn, Manchester Royal Exchange has settled on Oh Woman for a celebration by six innovative artists.

New film for PMLD audiences

7 March 2021

Frozen Light has created a new film for those with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Rambert commissions new work for streaming

7 March 2021

Rambert's live-stream programme for 2021 includes work by Jo Strømgren, Marion Motin, Imre Van Opstal and Marne Van Opstal and Benoit Swan Pouffer.

Curve extends online run of The Color Purple

5 March 2021

Leicester's Curve theatre has extended the streamed run of The Color Purple—at Home because of audience demand and it will now be available until Tuesday 16 March.

“Flagship” venue to open in Birmingham

5 March 2021

Arts and social justice organisation MAIA is to open a “flagship” venue in Birmingham for artists from black and under-represented communities.

One Dance and Guest continue mental wellbeing collaboration

5 March 2021

One Dance UK and filmmaker Rick Guest continue their collaboration promoting mental wellbeing for dancers with new short film A Dream of Dark & Troubling Things, which looks at rage.

Belfast Ensemble streams live children's horror opera

5 March 2021

Conor Mitchell’s darkly comic children’s opera The Musician: A Horror Opera for Children from the Belfast Ensemble asks, "who was the Pied Piper?" and "why did the rats all dance to his tune?"

Nick Cave to join cast of RSC Dream

4 March 2021

Musician, writer, film composer and actor Nick Cave is to join the cast of Dream, a live online Royal Shakespeare Company production based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Greenwich Dance third series of Talking Moves podcast

4 March 2021

Greenwich Dance is to release a third series of Talking Moves, a podcast about dance.

Hippodrome and Rambert to stream Rooms

4 March 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and dance company Rambert are to stream a new production, Rooms by Norwegian choreographer and theatre and film director Jo Strømgren.

ENB releases McMillan Manon online

4 March 2021

English National Ballet has released Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon on its Ballet on Demand streaming service.

Northampton theatre’s online movement festival

2 March 2021

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s Generate talent development programme is to stage Gen-Fest Movement, an all-day online festival dedicated to supporting the work and development of professional and emerging artists.

Online play analyses Mercutio’s friendship with Romeo

2 March 2021

New East Midlands company Anegada Theatre has produced a retelling of one of Shakespeare's tragedies, Mercutio’s Romeo and Juliet, which is available online for free.

Oldham springs into action

1 March 2021

Oldham Coliseum Theatre is hosting a spring season of online events and experiences.

Hope Mill Theatre expands horizons

1 March 2021

Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre is launching a community hub and small studio theatre.

Funny Women Around the World

28 February 2021

International funny women mark International Women's Day with a 12-hour stream.

NDCWales releases Plethu/Weave #2

28 February 2021

Three films will be released in March in the National Dance Company Wales and Literature Wales collaboration, Plethu/Weave #2, including the second 'Wales in Germany' commission.

Derby Theatre celebrates young people’s work

27 February 2021

Derby Theatre is to showcase work created by young people in areas of low cultural engagement through Reimagine, an online project supported by £1.1 million from Arts Council England.

NI dance company launches Open Space project

25 February 2021

Performing and creative arts centre Dance Associate in Newry, Northern Ireland has secured funding to launch a new project for young people.

Courtyard delivers workshops for kids in World Book Week

24 February 2021

Drama workshops based around well-known children’s books will be on offer at The Courtyard Hereford as part of celebrations for World Book Week.

Belgrade to première children’s show online

24 February 2021

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre is to livestream Asif Khan’s new play for children Jabala and the Jinn.

Off West End Awards 2021

21 February 2021

The Offies winners were announced this evening in an event streamed on Scenesaver to celebrate the work of fringe, alternative and independent theatres and artists.

Reading allowed in Manchester

21 February 2021

Hope Mill Theatre’s Play Reading Club celebrates its third birthday and continues to thrive online.

A starry Picture of Dorian Gray

21 February 2021

The Octagon in Bolton is one of a number of partner venues to present a brand new digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray with a starry cast next month.

Can you lick Lollipop mystery?

21 February 2021

Unsolved Online Productions has launched a new initiative The Lollipop Man.

Lowry looking for lockdown work

21 February 2021

The Lowry in Salford has announced a UK-wide commission for new work designed for the lockdown.

Drop into Lakeland's online events

21 February 2021

Theatre by The Lake has come up with a programme of online events; new ideas, new partnerships and investment in new work.

Short film Empty Stage helps BRB to keep dance alive

20 February 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet is to release of a short film, Carlos Acosta's first major digital commission for the company, Empty Stage.

Dancers’ tour postponed, so they go online

18 February 2021

Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara are to stream their “new dance spectacular” Remembering the Oscars for a three-week period, details at Northampton Royal and Derngate’s web site.

Courtyard to show mother-and-baby story online

17 February 2021

The Courtyard Hereford is to première online Hush Now which aims to give voice to the unmarried pregnant women who "were silenced, stigmatised, and hidden away in mother-and-baby homes”.

Birmingham REP and ballet company share £15,000 in donations

16 February 2021

More than £15,000 has been given to Birmingham REP and Birmingham Royal Ballet in a Save a Seat campaign, with donations from audiences being match-funded by law firm DLA Piper.

Stars get together for show on World Theatre Day

16 February 2021

Some of the biggest names in theatre, dance and music are to get together for Rise Up With the Arts, a live stream event which will air on World Theatre Day.

CAN Festival 2021 February and March events

14 February 2021

Chinese Arts Now’s annual festival of work by British East and South East Asian artists will feature ten weeks of new exhibitions, screenings, sound installations, performance and comedy.

Welsh mega-fest as four events join forces

14 February 2021

Four Welsh arts events have teamed up to present free, online festival, Gŵyl 2021.

Surround yourself with Petrichor

13 February 2021

Step into a new world, with Petrichor, a 360-degree experience offered through Oldham Coliseum.

Chronic Insanity airs hairy hands horror story

12 February 2021

Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity is to release Hairy Hands FM, an online interactive experience which will bring the “legendary Hairy Hands of Dartmoor to the smartphone in your hands”.

Opera North new online activities

8 February 2021

Opera North has launched Opera North’s Little School of Music, Orchestral Academy Online, ONe-to-ONe virtual solo performances and Virtual Choirs: From Couch to Chorus.

Star performer interviews and Sondheim rerun from Chichester

8 February 2021

Chichester Festival Theatre's Facing the Music features streamed interviews with Sheila Hancock, Philip Quast, Patricia Routledge, Imelda Staunton and Giles Terera.

NT's Angels in America available to view At Home

8 February 2021

The National Theatre has added Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Parts One and Two plus Antigone and Behind the Beautiful Forevers to its Theatre at Home platform.

RSC paves way with live online performance

8 February 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage Dream inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which lets audiences influence the live performance.

Graduate talent needed for charity concerts

7 February 2021

Concert series Graduates at Cadogan Hall is looking for recent graduates to perform at charity concerts.

Northampton theatre airs new musical as free videos

6 February 2021

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is to release a new musical, On Hostile Ground, inspired by the stories of people “affected by the government’s hostile environment policy”.

Push Festival proves game for anything

6 February 2021

This year’s Push Festival at HOME in Manchester features six brand-new commissions and—for the first time—an experimental video game.

Derby Theatre to commemorate Rams’ 1946 FA Cup success

6 February 2021

Derby Theatre is to produce a community play to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Derby County’s winning the FA Cup.

You can't Oldham back!

6 February 2021

Even in Lockdown, it’s New Year, new opportunities at Oldham Coliseum.

New Old Friends produces audio comedy murder mystery

4 February 2021

Touring theatre company New Old Friends has created an audio comedy murder mystery, a six-episode podcast called Crimes of a Country Garden.

The Place Festival of online works

4 February 2021

The Place has partnered with Chisenhale Dance Space to curate a festival under the theme "How Do We Tune In To Sensation?"

Courtyard starts masterclasses for young people

4 February 2021

The Courtyard Hereford is to offer a series of masterclasses which are designed to help young people forge a career in the arts.

ENB Swan Lake online

3 February 2021

English National Ballet is bringing Derek Deane’s Swan Lake to online audiences via its recently launched streaming service, Ballet on Demand.

RSC’s Romeo and Juliet to be screened on BBC Two

1 February 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2018 production of Romeo and Juliet will be on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer as part of the BBC's Lockdown Learning Shakespeare Week.

1623 to air YouTube series on trauma and recovery

1 February 2021

Derby-based 1623 and D and O Productions have produced What We Feel, a mini-series for YouTube exploring “life, love and grief when you’re queer, disabled, deaf, female, middle-aged and working-class”.

Online event will be a Valentine’s Heartbreak

30 January 2021

Off the back of a live-streamed panto, Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions is diving back into virtual events with an online alternative to Valentine’s Day.

Line-up revealed for annual Leicester dance festival

27 January 2021

Leicester’s annual dance festival Let's Dance International Frontiers is back for its 11th year with 11 days of in-person, indoor, outdoor and online events.

RSC offers resources to home students and teachers

26 January 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company is offering free Shakespeare-related resources to students learning at home and to teachers looking to create lesson plans to deliver online.

Earwigs emerge from Tron Theatre

25 January 2021

Scotland's Tron Theatre presents a free podcast series of sonic theatre productions.

Rise:Up and hear the music

24 January 2021

Digital venue Stream.Theatre and Perfect Pitch preview new British musicals online.

NW venues put Dorian in the picture

23 January 2021

Several North West venues will be partners for a new digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Collide Theatre virtual Metamorphosis

23 January 2021

Collide Theatre and London fringe venue The Cockpit offer a virtual front row for Metamorphosis 360°.

Curve to stream The Color Purple

22 January 2021

Two Midlands theatres are joining up to present an online concert version of their first co-production and 2,000 tickets will be distributed free to NHS workers.

May Contain Food by Luca Silvestrini's Protein

22 January 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's dance and singing fusion May Contain Food will be streamed in February on King's Place's streaming platform.

New dance project by James Cousins

22 January 2021

A short film and virtual gallery, In Search of Sanctuary, will open Dance East’s digital programme from 29-31 January 2021.

Alexia starts Birmingham theatre’s online workshops

22 January 2021

Birmingham’s Alexia McIntosh has kicked off a series of digital masterclasses at the Hippodrome in the city: 25 online workshops for young people aged between 7 and 25.

Romeo and Julia

Boris Blacher

Best Girl

Christine Mackie

Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussy, Libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck

One Small Globe (The Covid-19 Monologues Volume 2)

Janet Plater

Blackmail: A Reiver Tale (The Covid-19 Monologues Volume 2)

Steve Byron

Oh By The Way, I Hate Myself (The Covid-19 Monologues Volume 2)

Hannah Ellis Ryan

Living Newspaper Edition 5

Zia Ahmed, Leo Butler, Guillermo Calderón, Nick Cassenbaum, E.V. Crowe, Maud ...

I Just Called To Say… (The Covid-19 Monologues Volume 2)

Rani Moorthy

Fake (The Covid-19 Monologues Volume 2)

Chris Barlas

Cruise

Jack Holden

A Splinter of Ice

Ben Brown

Harm

Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Luisa Miller

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Kabale und Liebe (I...

Security

Hammaad Chaudry

Living Newspaper Edition 4

Bukky Bakray, Stacey Gregg, Tanika Gupta, Ellie Kendrick, Sabrina Mahfouz, Na...

Icarus

Ross McGregor

Father the Father

Gilly Campbell

Aphrodite

Ross McGregor

Pygmalion

Ross McGregor

West End In Blackpool

Director Ashley Luke Lloyd

Orpheus

Ross McGregor

Persephone

Ross McGregor

Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare

Living Newspaper Edition 3

Travis Alabanza, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Nick Bruckman, Anupama Chandrasekhar, ...

The Flying Dutchman

Richard Wagner

Sadie

David Ireland

Pale Sister

Colm Tóibín

Hysterical! A Hilarious History of Hysteria

Rebecca Buckle

Jabala and the Jinn

Asif Khan

La Voix Humaine & L’Heure Espagnole

Maurice Ravel & Francis Poulenc

Angela

Mark Ravenhill

Iphigénie en Tauride

Christoph Willibald Gluck, libretto by Nicolas-Francois Guillard

Unfaithfully Yours

Miles Malleson

L'heure Espagnole

Maurice Ravel

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin, concept, script and direction Rimas Tuminas

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang

L’Heure Espagnole

Maurice Ravel, Libretto by Frank-Nohain

Attila

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, Themistocles Solera

Gallathea

John Lyly

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Henry Filloux-Bennett, based on the novel by Oscar Wilde

The Aran Islands

J M Synge, adapted by Joe O’Byrne

The Band Plays On

Chris Bush

Adventurous

Ian Hallard

Firebird

John Taras

Andrea Chenier

Umberto Giordano, libretto by Luigi Illica

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

Nassim Soleimanpour

The Removal Service

Will Pattle and Alice Briganti

Breaking the Waves

Music by Missy Mazzoli, libretto by Royce Vavrek, based on the film by Lars v...

Fedora

Umberto Giordano, libretto by Arturo Colautti

Dream

Pippa Hill

Three Sides of Balanchine

George Balanchine

The Flood

Conceived by Magdalena Zira, written by Nasia Dionysiou, Antonis Georgiou, Av...

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

Pietro Mascagni & Ruggero Leoncavallo, libretti by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti...

The Christopher Boy’s Communion

David Mamet

In Her Own Words (Oh Woman!)

Becky Wilkie

Girl on an Altar

Marina Carr

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The Drowned World

Gary Owen

Die Tote Stadt

Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Libretto by Eric Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Korngold

Mercutio’s Romeo and Juliet

Tara Anegada

Un Ballo in Maschera

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Somma

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Book and lyrics by Richard Hough Music by Ben Morales Frost

AI: When a Robot Writes a Play (AI: Když Robot Píše Hru)

Project author: Tomáš Studeník, sScript: Artificial Intelligence

The Queen of Spades

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

The Belle’s Stratagem

Hannah Cowley

Prodigal Son

Choreography by George Balanchine, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Dear Tomorrow – Hope From Home

Hannah Khalil, Satinder Chohan, Nemo Martin, Chiméne Suleyman, Ameera Conrad ...

The Theatre Channel Episode Five: The Classics of Broadway

Pelléas and Mélisande

Claude Debussy

Empty Stage

Concept Carlos Acosta, words and music Benjamin Scheuer,

Losing Myself

Peter Barnes

A True Born Englishman

Peter Barnes

Billy and Me

Peter Barnes

Rosa

Peter Barnes

Hymn

Lolita Chakrabarti

The Color Purple - at Home

Book by Marsha Norman, music & lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis & Steph...

Stuck With You

Jessica Lovett

Good Grief

Lorien Haynes

Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare

Winterrreise

Music by Franz Schubert, choreography by Christian Spuck

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

Pietro Mascagni & Ruggero Leoncavallo

Who Cares?

Matt Woodhead

Good Day Bad Day

Karen Featherstone

Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner

Othello

William Shakespeare

The Daughter

Simon Stone After Henrik Ibsen

Katie Roche

Teresa Deevy

The Gift

Leanna Benjamin

Little Wars

Steven Carl McCasland

Love in a Wood

William Wycherley

Meet Me in St Louis

Songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, book by Hugh Wheeler, based on The Kens...

On Beckett/In Screen: An Exploration of the Works of Samuel Beckett

Conceived and performed by Bill Irwin

A Touch of the Poet

Eugene O'Neill

Der Fliegende Hollander

Composed and written by Richard Wagner

Dancing Nation

Twenty Twenty

Jasmine Lee-Jones, Nessah Muthy and Tolani Shoneye

Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom

Adapted by Aedín Moloney & Colum McCann from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce

The Weir

Conor McPherson

Flowers for the Chateau

Rebekah Bowsher

Molly Sweeney

Brian Friel

The Woman Hater

Frances Burney

Mischief Movie Night In

Mischief Theatre

Anna Karenina

Director / choreographer Anželika Cholina, music Alfred Schnittke

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

Soldier Songs

Music and libretto by David T Little, screenplay by James Darrah and Johnatha...

Gianni Schicchi

Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

How Do You Make a Cup of Tea?

Kellan Frankland

Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvadore Cammarano

National Theatre at Home

16 April 2021

Philip Fisher reviews the National Theatre's new online video library.

Best Girl is back

7 April 2021

The return of a 2019 Fringe favourite in a new format for online audiences.

A voice from the past, a message for the present

4 April 2021

National news editor and London reviewer Sandra Giorgetti talks to the team behind Talking Gods, a series of plays created and filmed by Arrows & Traps Theatre Company at her local venue, the Jack Studio Theatre.

To paywall or not to paywall, that is the question

28 March 2021

National news editor and London reviewer Sandra Giorgetti looks at a recent report on consumption of online content.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs

15 February 2021

Sandra Giorgetti has her mind boggled by the array of online workshops that keep the creative juices flowing and the grey matter going in an otherwise gloomy winter landscape.

Challenging ourselves

12 February 2021

As the tedium continues, Philip Fisher describes adventure as a remedy for the lockdown blues.

A Ray of Light

8 January 2021

At the end of a shocking week, Philip Fisher enthuses about the future of online theatre.

NE theatre in 2020, as seen from our house (mainly)

31 December 2020

Peter Lathan tries to cheer himself up by taking a light-hearted look at the theatre year in the North East but finds it’s not that easy.