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Voila! Europe 2021

26 September 2021

Voila! Europe 2021 offers an eclectic range of events in person and online.

Altered Skin will present work-in-progress Fatherhood at the First Bite Festival

Lunchtime works-in-progress in online festival

24 September 2021

Ten new work-in-progress shows by companies and artists based in the Midlands will have their first outing at the free, online First Bite festival.

Symposium to look at All That’s Been Revealed

12 September 2021

The Achates Philanthropy Foundation's first national symposium is to be guest-curated by Javaad Alipoor and act as a philosophical provocation to the sector.

ROH autumn streams of opera and ballet

12 September 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream six productions from its 2021/22 season on selected Fridays then on-demand for 30 days.

Graeae and 1623 plead: Let Me Be

9 September 2021

Two theatre companies have teamed up for a new course called Let Me Be which will be delivered digitally and is open to all deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists aged 16 and above.

Introducing the next generation of choreographers

Sadler’s Wells Young Associates on film

5 September 2021

Sadler’s Wells has released Introducing the next generation of choreographers, a series of four short films by Sadler’s Wells Young Associates, available free on Digital Stage.

Bloomsbury Festival 2021

29 August 2021

London's Bloomsbury Festival offers a varied programme of 100+ events this October.

A hen night on BBC iPlayer

27 August 2021

A NE short film, one of the first pieces of disabled-women-led British broadcasting, will soon be available on BBC iPlayer

Ez Holland, Faye Bingham and Nic Lawton in Hear. Speak. See

Students’ Edinburgh drama is also digital show

20 August 2021

West Midlands-based “absurdist” theatre company Expial Atrocious is performing its new immersive drama Hear. See. Speak at the Edinburgh Fringe which is also available as a digital show.

Stars line up for Broadway Baby virtual reading

14 August 2021

Theatre stars are to take part in a virtual reading of the children's book Broadway Baby by Russell Miller, with a proportion of sales going to the Theatre Artists Fund.

ENB: new season updates

5 August 2021

English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer Celebration to be live-streamed; Erina Takahasi celebrates 25 years with company; Akram Khan's Creature to première.

ROH returns to cinema

5 August 2021

The Royal Opera House's international cinema programme is to return after sixteen months of closure, bringing ballet and opera to more than 2,000 screens across the globe.

“Funny, insightful and moving plays”: Faith

RSC shows Faith with new experience in Coventry

30 July 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 are to create a new theatre experience, Faith, which will take place over 24 hours in locations across Coventry and online.

Take The Hound home

29 July 2021

Bolton Octagon theatre’s summer comedy The Hound Of The Baskervillles can now be enjoyed at home.

Living the Dream: RSC show free to watch

29 July 2021

Dream, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was filmed to explore how audiences can experience live performance in the future, is now available to watch free of charge.

Noir available in black and white

25 July 2021

Manchester’s Vertigo Theatre production Noir is on Stream Theatre from July 23.

Telephone box tales at the Courtyard

20 July 2021

The Courtyard Hereford has commissioned a series of digital films exploring stories connected with telephone boxes.

RSC playmaking festival gets new online platform

5 July 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its new online platform for its annual playmaking festival which for the first time has included submissions from adults as well as the RSC’s associate schools.

DISRUPT – new online arts festival

4 July 2021

New online arts festival looks at how the pandemic has required the adoption of new practices to create work.

U.Dance youth dance summer festival

4 July 2021

Karen Hauer, Sir Matthew Bourne and more announced for U.Dance National Festival 2021, One Dance UK’s free youth dance festival in July.

Online theatre reviews

La Voix Humaine

François Poulenc, Libretto by Jean Cocteau

Opera Philadelphia

Elkins Estate in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania

From 24 September 2021

Pod

Arabella Arnott

Matt Jamie / Coracle Productions with Rachel Horton / The Culture Vulture in ...

Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

18–25 September 2021

Der Zwerg

Alexander Zemlinsky, libretto by George C. Klaren

Dutch National Opera

18 September–18 December 2021

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival Theatre

Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario

17 September–4 December 2021

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Teatro Real, Madrid

3 September 2021–3 March 2022

All the Bens

Ian Townsend, adapted for audio by Ian Winterton

Bamalam Productions

Released 1 September 2021

Fruit Salad

Selina Helliwell

GMF Digital Events

1–30 September 2021

Still

Frances Poet

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

1–29 September 2021

This is Paradise

Michael John O’Neill

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

1–29 September 2021

Aroldo

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pavé

Teatro Galli di Rimini

Teatro Amintore Galli, Rimini, Italy

From 27 August 2021

The Green Table

Kurt Jooss

The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago / Wocomo Music

The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago

From 26 August 2021

Salomé

Oscar Wilde

Lazarus Theatre Company

Southwark Playhouse

25 August–11 September 2021

Lament for Sheku Bayoh

Hannah Lavery

Edinburgh International Festival, National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Lyce...

Royal Lyceum Theatre

25–31 August 2021

Ross & Rachel

James Fritz

Francesca Moody Productions

Shedinburgh (Soho Theatre)

25–29 August 2021

Move

Julia Taudevin

Disaster Plan

Traverse 3

24 August–7 September 2021

Eavesdropping (Walk This Play)

Hannah Lavery and Sarah MacGillivray

ThickSkin

Traverse 3

20 August–17 September 2021

When the Fern Blooms

Yevhen Stankovych, libretto by Oleksandr Stelmashenko

Lviv National Opera

Lviv National Opera, Ukraine

20 August 2021–20 February 2022

Leaf by Niggle

J R R Tolkien

Puppet State Theatre

Scottish Storytelling Centre

17–24 August 2021

An Evening With An Immigrant

Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams and Fuel

Traverse 3

17–23 August 2021

Rusalka

Antonin Dvořák, libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Staatstheater Braunschweig, Germany

13 August–13 November 2021

We’ll Meet in Moscow

Natalie McGrath

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

10–31 August 2021

Dark Spirits, Black Humor: A Night of Cocktails and Storytelling

Mark Jude Sullivan

InHouse Theatre

The Wolves bar, downtown Los Angeles

8–29 August 2021

Saved

Graeme Leak

Scissor Kick

ZOOTV

8–28 August 2021

Prison Game

Marcus Hercules

Hercules Productions with HOME Manchester and Pleasance

Pleasance Online

7–30 August 2021

Charlie's a Clepto

Clare Monnelly

Axis Ballymun and Dublin Port Company

Assembly Showcatcher

6–30 August 2021

Are You Boxed In, Mr Dennis?

Dennis Elkins

Flying Solo! Presents

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

I Love You Mum - I promise I won't Die

Mark Wheeller

Tie It Up Theatre

Fringe Player

6–28 August 2021

King John: A Theatrical Film

William Shakespeare, adapted by Abey Bradbury

Cream Faced Loons and SquadFour Productions

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

CITY

John McCarthy

John McCarthy / Everyman Theatre

Fringe Player

6–28 August 2021

Afloat

Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan

Sunday's Child

Summerhall

6–29 August 2021

Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal

Melissa Center

Whole Self Stories

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Clowntime

John Feffer

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert

Carrot Productions

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

A Theatrical Life

Daniel Munson

Siobhan Bremer

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Wardrobe Ensemble with The Wardrobe Theatre

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

Possible

Shôn Dale-Jones

National Theatre Wales

Pleasance Online

6–30 August 2021

Agave vs The Lion

Sarah Crockarell adapting The Bacchae by Euripides

Flying Solo! Presents

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Heroes

Majk Stokes

Quaker Meeting House Online

6–30 August 2021

Conversations

Rob Ward

Emmerson & Ward, Curve and De Montford University

Pleasance Online

6–30 August 2021

Color Inside the Lines

Jenny Stafford

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

The Saviour

Deirdre Kinahan

Landmark Productions

Assembly Showcatcher

6–30 August 2021

Under The Floorboards

Simon Shaw

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Sugar

Mabel Thomas

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Journey Across the Impossible

Apollo Saxophone Quartet

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

Retrained

In Bed With My Brother

Newcastle Fringe Festival and Alphabetti

Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

5 August 2021

La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pavé

Glyndebourne Opera House

1–29 August 2021

Martha Graham: Virtual Gala Performance

Various choreographers

ESD (Eliot Smith Dance) Presents

31 July 2021

Muslim First Dates

A N Fair

Other Stories and Newcastle Fringe Festival (An Invigorate Seed Pot Bursary H...

Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

30 July 2021

ll Trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Italy

28 July 2021–28 January 2022

Masks and Faces

Charles Reade and Tom Taylor

Finborough Theatre

28 July–25 August 2021

rose carved in rain

gobscure

Newcastle Fringe Festival (An Invigorate Seed Pot Bursary Holder) & Curious Arts

Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

27 July 2021

La Fille du Régiment

Gaetano Donizetti, Libretto by Georges Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean...

Met on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 25 July 2021

The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

Opera North in association with Phoenix Dance Theatre

Grand Theatre, Leeds

23 July 2021–23 January 2022

The Wolves

Sarah DeLappe

Lincoln Center Theater

Mitzi E Newhouse Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater

23 July–15 August 2021

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte

The Royal Opera

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

16 July–15 August 2021

Rambert Summer Livestream 2021: Eye Candy / Rouge

Choreography Imre van Opstal & Marne van Opstal, Marion Motin

Rambert

Rambert Home Studio

15–17 July 2021

Our Little Lives: Shakespeare & Me

Russell Brand and Ian Rickson

Live-Now

Almeida Theatre

14–23 July 2021

Le Nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Beaumarchais

Théâtre de l’Archevêché

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2021

9 July 2021–8 January 2022

The Haunted Manor

Stanislaw Moniuszko

Theatre Wielki, Poznan, Poland

Poznan Opera House, Poznan, Poland

9 July 2021–9 January 2022

Black Is The Color Of My Voice

Apphia Campbell

Seabright Productions and Play The Spotlight

Wilton’s Music Hall

8–11 July 2021

Pause

Laura Lindow

Alphabetti Theatre in partnership with Paula Penman, Mark Calvert, Laura Lind...

Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

6–17 July 2021

Alice Coote, Anna Stéphany and Clive Bayley

La Clemenza di Tito

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio

Glyndebourne Opera House

4–18 July 2021

Andrea Chénier

Umberto Giordano, libretto by Luigi Illica

Hungarian State Opera

Erkel Theatre, Budapest

2 July 2021–2 January 2022

Billy Budd

Benjamin Britten, libretto by E M Forster and Eric Crozier based on novel by ...

Met on Demand

Metropolitan Opera House, New York

From 28 June 2021

Online theatre features

National Theatre Together - Press Conference 4 June 2021

4 June 2021

Philip Fisher reports on announcements from the National Theatre that promise an optimistic future.

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.

Online content consumption - research published

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.