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The Hound of the Baskervilles Jake Ferretti, Niall Ransome, Serena Manteghi

The future of streamed theatre

8 May 2022

A recent survey undertaken by Digital Theatre provides some useful pointers to consumption of streamed content.

Unity's online offer

8 May 2022

Unity Online is a new on-demand streaming platform for all of Unity's film content and online programme at the Liverpool venue.

Niall Ransome (Dr Watson), Jake Ferretti (Sherlock Holmes) and Serena Manteghi (Sir Henry) in The Hound of the Baskervilles

Hound of the Baskervilles overhaul to stream

5 May 2022

Digital Theatre is to stream Original Theatre’s comedy The Hound of the Baskervilles, Lotte Wakeham’s “overhaul” of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated adventure.

Online show inspired by real life Sea Girl

9 April 2022

East Midlands-based Carbon Theatre has produced “interactive, choose-your-own-adventure experience”, Sea Girl.

New Vic to produce knife crime docu-drama

9 April 2022

A 45-minute documentary-drama on knife crime is being developed at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre.

WGGB 'groundbreaking' agreement for digital broadcasts

7 April 2022

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has agreed principles for digital broadcasts of stage plays by the Royal Court, the RSC and the National Theatre.

Dennis Herdman, Tom Hiddleston and Thom Tuck

Rep streams The Play What I Wrote on demand

18 March 2022

Birmingham Rep’s production of The Play What I Wrote is available to watch on demand via the theatre’s web site for a limited time.

Experience The Alter for free

15 March 2022

Swamp Motel has released The Alter, an interactive short film, for free as part of The Lowry's Live Now programme.

Lowry continues digital work

11 March 2022

The Lowry in Salford is to launch a new digital platform, Lowry Digital, to meet the continued need for digital work as well as live performance.

We Perform It launches service with competition

20 February 2022

We Perform It offers virtual audio meeting room for rehearsing and recording scripts.

Future of Theatre conference runs online from 30 March to 1 April

Future Of Theatre returns

20 February 2022

Industry publication The Stage will once again be hosting its award-winning three-day conference on the future of theatre.

Online theatre reviews

La Fille du Regiment

Gaetano Donizetti, Libretto by Jean-François-Alfred Bayard & Jules-Henry Vern...

Donizetti Opera Festival and Teatro Lirico Nacional de Cuba

Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy

13 May–13 August 2022

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Kurt Weill, Libretto by Bertolt Brecht

Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy

30 April–30 July 2022

The Flying Dutchman

Richard Wagner

Nationaltheater Mannheim

Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany

24 April–24 October 2022

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

BBC Radio 4

BBC Sounds

23 April–21 May 2022

The Seven Deadly Sins

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

Opera North

Leeds Grand Theatre

8 April–8 October 2022

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company

3 April 2022–2 March 2023

The LIfe and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

Anthony Bolton, Libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey

Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera, Surrey

From 1 April 2022

Der Vampyr

Heinrich Marschner, Libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrook

Staatsoper Hnanover

Staatsoper Hanover, Germany

25 March–25 September 2022

Elektra

Richard Strauss, libretto by Hugo von Hofmannstahl after Sophocles

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland

18 March–18 September 2022

West Side Story

Screenplay by Tony Kushner based on the play and film with music by Leonard B...

Disney+

From 2 March 2022

Online theatre features

Paul Rhys, Sinead Matthews and Company in Master and Margarita

Ukrainian Culture

25 March 2022

Ukrainian culture is far richer than most of us realise. Here are a few suggestions for those interested in the topic.

Radio Play Revival

25 February 2022

Philip Fisher discovers an impressive new podcast series from America.

Dramox TV brings world theatre into our homes

28 January 2022

Dramox TV is a new online project and offers a wide range of theatre, dance and opera productions from around the world.