Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The actor and author on starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, her Ballet Shoes sequel and the government response to theatre’s crisis
More than six months have passed since the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
The world’s longest-running play had been due to welcome socially distanced audiences next month but is now delayed ‘in view of uncertainty and with greater restrictions looming for Lond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, September 25, 2020
Producer of the Olivier award-winning hit says costs can ‘just about be covered’ when it restarts as a socially distanced production – but significant financial risks remain
The hit fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PMThursday, September 24, 2020
The Crown’s Erin Doherty will star in Crave, staged for socially distanced audience and available online around the world
Sarah Kane’s play Crave is to be livestreamed when it is staged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, September 20, 2020
Old Vic, LondonMichael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are a superb trinity for Brian Friel’s powerful monologues
The Old Vic’s livestream of Faith Healer – with the divine cas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, September 18, 2020
Performer stages protest to ‘go to bat’ for imperilled workforce overlooked by post-Covid reopening of schools, offices and pubs
The best theatre and dance to watch online
Beverley Knig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMThe Garden theatre at the Eagle, LondonA cast of six including Strictly’s Joanne Clifton perform Stephen Schwartz’s breezy songs in a new outdoor venue
What a way to woo an audience! Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, September 17, 2020
Dick Whittington presented in new in-the-round season that includes sequel to hit football play Death of England
The National Theatre in London is to reopen next month with a season that inc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Tributes paid to ‘brilliant actor’ who excelled in Shakespearean roles and worked with Federico Fellini, Stephen Frears and Roman Polanski
The acclaimed British classical actor Barbara J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMMonday, September 14, 2020
London venue will host ‘dynamic, political and disruptive’ performances around its building
The Royal Court theatre in London is to reopen to audiences in November, not with a play on ei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMActors will visit all of the city’s wards offering a choose-your-own pantomime programme as a response to Covid
York Theatre Royal puts on one of the most famous pantos in the land. Even h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMHit show about the six wives of Henry VIII aims to boost confidence in live theatre and will also be staged in Salford
It is, perhaps, the perfect musical for a nation under a “rule of six…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Judi Dench joins cast of A Marvellous Party to mark Coward’s 1920 playwriting debut and raise money for performers’ charities, while Emma Thompson features in Zoom reading of Private Liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMProduction featuring spectacular effects will transfer to Adelphi theatre in May
London’s West End theatres remain mostly shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic but, if the calculations ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Brian Friel drama promises ‘emotional thwack’, with star joining David Threlfall and Indira Varma at the Old Vic
Michael Sheen is to return to the stage in a revival of Brian Friel’s F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
Shakespeare at a cricket ground, a festival in a bombed-out church and park-bench drama – plus more socially distanced shows to enjoy this month
August is over but there’s still time to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, August 27, 2020
Jennifer Lunn wins £2,500 prize for drama Es and Flo, whose fringe premiere was sabotaged by the Covid pandemic
A drama about an ageing lesbian couple’s love, and their experience of disc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWednesday, August 26, 2020
A theatrical reading of the children’s classic, directed by Ned Bennett, will be free online
One has mouldy cereal in his beard and revoltingly hairy ears; the other has a glass eye and a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, August 20, 2020
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThis concert version of Timothy Sheader’s revelatory 2016 production made a virtue of distancing on stage – were there a roof it would have blown …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
John Godber’s B&B drama – performed by the playwright, with his family – launches programme that includes one-woman Christmas show
A play written by John Godber during lockdown is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
At Soho studios soon to be replaced by a hotel, ThisEgg theatre company turn a time of destruction into celebration
Amid traffic cones and breeze blocks, the diggers are out in Soho. Nothing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PMDoctor Who: Time Fracture has been adapted by the team behind long-running immersive F Scott Fitzgerald show The Great Gatsby
It has been a screen sensation for almost 60 years, with a huge …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, August 14, 2020
Watson, whose final performance in a new Wayne McGregor production has been postponed by Covid, will join the company’s team of coaches
He has stunned Covent Garden audiences as the doomed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThe comic, who was testing out new material, said ‘You’ve ruined it’ before leaving
The comedian Russell Howard cut short a standup set in Bristol on Wednesday night after discovering …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, August 12, 2020
At livestreamed event actor says it was thought before March people would not observe rules
The actor Sir Ian McKellen has said that the British government “underestimated” the public by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMThis ingeniously designed mystery game is a summer escape made with wonder and wellbeing at its heart
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If you grew up reading The Famous Five and Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, August 11, 2020
From Brighton to Belfast, socially distanced performances are popping up in unexpected spaces, including the beach, a shopping centre and a church
‘Dive in!” commanded the cover of Brigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, August 9, 2020
A socially distanced audience will sit among objects recalling Northern Ireland’s prolonged conflict and the pandemic in a piece about mourning
In a verse dedicated to his aunt, the Irish …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Writer says production of Dickens classic will debut at Nottingham Playhouse in October 2021 due to uncertainty over reopening of UK theatres
Mark Gatiss’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMWednesday, August 5, 2020
Live-streamed production of Three Kings rescheduled for second time as actor is ‘still not well enough to perform’
A live-streamed theatre production starring Andrew Scott has been delay…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
With this year’s Edinburgh festival cancelled, performers including Sara Pascoe, Deborah Frances-White and Gary McNair will be broadcasting live from the tiniest of venues
It started as a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM 
