Online theatre

ENB Philharmonic thanks the NHS

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

CFT puts Mrs Harris's trip to Paris online

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

Ballet de Monte Carlo's Beauty online

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

Sadler’s Wells adds Rain to Digital Stage

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

Courtyard to stream live recording of Cinderella

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

Quantum Magic Lab's free magic lessons

Entertainment for bored children sorted by magic—literally!

Cirque Du Soleil online show

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

Perform your own panto

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

This week's line-up for #KHTOnline

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

Eclectic lineup for Housetrap Theatre & Arts Festival 2020

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

Elders get The Best Seat In The House

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

Curve makes Earnest play available online

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

Oddsocks releases Hamlet the Comedy online

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

Digital GIFT programme announced

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

Interactive circus classes for everyone

Time on your hands? Learn circus skills from the experts with Lost in Translation Circus classes for beginners upwards.

Music track from Akram Khan's Creature released

On what would have been the première of Creature by Akram Khan, composer Vincenzo Lamagna, Akram Khan Company and English National Ballet have shared a track from the score along with an art-film by Maxime Dos.

BRB online ballet classes and performance

In partnership with BBC's Culture in Quarantine, Birmingham Royal Ballet will present an online Ballet Class Live and a 'living room' performance of The Swan set to music by Saint-Saëns.

balletLORENT’s Rumpelstiltskin gets online release

Sadler’s Wells has added to its Digital Stage programme a matinée screening of balletLORENT’s Rumpelstiltskin and the first dance at home workshops for families and older audiences.

Hampstead to stream Bartlett, Steel and Brenton plays

Hampstead Theatre is to stream its productions of Mike Bartlett’sWild, Beth Steel’s Wonderland and Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line for free, each for a week on demand, in partnership with The Guardian.

Too Pretty To Punch on International Transgender Day of Visibility

Trans artist Edalia Day makes their work available digitally with Too Pretty To Punch online on 31 March, aptly International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Composers to write A Song for Our Time

Jason Robert Brown will select a newly written song for our time to be recorded for theatre charity, Acting for Others.

More Royal Opera House free productions online

In addition to previously announced free broadcasts, the Royal Opera House has announced the next in the series of productions to be available to watch online.

Theatr Clwyd Together | Theatr Clwyd Ynghyd

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

Leave A Light On: week 2 line-up

Lambert Jackson and The Theatre Café are presenting a series of concerts to be live-streamed to both entertain those in self-isolation and provide some financial support to the artists involved.

Oddsocks goes online with past performances

Derby company Oddsocks is waiting for news about performances in the summer before it decides whether its tour of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors can go ahead.

Curve to share Asian Football Casual recording

Leicester’s Curve theatre is to share online for free an archive recording of its production of Riaz Khan’s Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual.

RSC and Marquee team up to stream weekly productions

The Royal Shakespeare Company and performing arts streaming service Marquee TV have teamed up to offer new productions each Saturday.

The (Shakespeare) Show goes online weekly

Following its opening live reading of Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Show Must Go On will live-stream weekly Shakespeare readings until November.

Barn Theatre streams Henry V

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester is to hold a press night for its live-streamed production of Henry V, directed by Hal Chambers and starring Aaron Sidwell and Lauren Samuels.

BalletBoyz Deluxe on BBC Four and online

BalletBoyz’ new dance show Deluxe will air on BBC Four for the BBC Culture in Quarantine festival and then be available online to launch Sadler’s Wells Facebook Premieres.

NSDF goes virtual for 2020

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

NT Live to stream for free via YouTube

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

Sadler’s Wells takes to the Digital Stage

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

News from Cardiff

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

Habit of Art and The Croft to share online run

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

Headlong and Century bring leading playwrights to isolated audiences

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

A digital festival of dance from Leicester

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

Papatango monologues to be shared for free as video and PDF

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

See HOME at home with new online commissions

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

Welcome to the Coronavirus Theatre Club

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

Free online ballet and opera from Royal Opera House

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

Housetrap brings immersive theatre into the home

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

Hampstead to stream I and You free for a week

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

Opening week of streaming concerts announced

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

Stage stars take to the web on Shakespeare Day

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

Theatre and comedy you can watch for free online

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

The Gateshead International Festival of Theatre goes online

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

King's Head Theatre keeps going online

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

The Bard goes online, live-streamed

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

Cancelled Habit of Art to be available to download

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

Live streamed concerts will keep actors in work during closures

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

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

Macbeth

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

Getting Better Slowly

Nick Wood

One Man, Two Guvnors

Richard Bean

The Price of Everything

Daniel Bye

Isolated But Open: Voices from Across The Shutdown

Rachel De-Lahay, Anders Lustgarten

Wild

Mike Bartlett

Oklahoma

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

Cyprus Avenue

David Ireland

Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual

Adapted by Dougal Irvine from the book by Riaz Khan

Peter and the Wolf

Music by Prokofiev, choreography by Matthew Hart

Henry V

William Shakespeare

NewsRevue Special

Check Up: Our NHS @ 70

Mark Thomas

The Wind in the Willows

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

Ghost Quartet

Dave Malloy

Online Theatre

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

Ain't nothing like the real thing

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

Established services for streaming British theatre, opera and ballet

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