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The Donmar Warehouse is the first major playhouse in the city to reopen, with a socially distanced sound installation.
Profile of Young Vic artistic director could go still further
Filmed, as one would, well, imagine, prior to lockdown, Imagine .... My Name is Kwame hearkens to what now seems a bygone er…
Theatre comes to life, albeit gently, and some familiar names crop up online
After a weeklong hiatus due to an absence of noteworthy material, this column is back heralding the return, as w…
Streamed productions from the archive of the Royal Shakespeare Company show the development of some top-rank British performers.
Empty playhouses caught on camera and an online 'Merchant' complete a typically varied week of theatrical fare
Theatres will begin gently unlocking their doors as we head into August. In the…
A Broadway legend in concert lends musical buoyancy to this week's ever wide-ranging theatrical array
We're easing out of lockdown, haircuts are being had, and the theatre continually shape…
Medeas past and present conjoin across a characteristically eclectic theatre week
Stop the presses! For the first time in nearly four months, The Arts Desk can point to the first of several…
"Staged," a six-episode sitcom, and "Talking Heads," a remake of a group of vaunted monologues, show what good can come of a bereft theatrical scene in Britain.
Nigel Slater is back, as is Richard Nelson's Apple family for a second time via Zoom
Can this weekly lineup really now be three months old? As we move towards at least some degree of re…
Some celeb-heavy revivals and a kids-friendly showstopper feature amongst this week's lineup
Might we be nearing light at the end of the lockdown tunnel? It definitely seems that way, with t…
The state of Britain then and now gets a look-in, as do animals in human form
As lockdown continues, National Theatre at Home has announced its final sequence of plays, and several of the v…
THEATRE LOCKDOWN SPECIAL 9: Alan Bennett revisited, and so is Oz
Some familiar titles, a 1913 rarity and a show in which the audience plays its part
The government may occupy shifting sands…
Caryl Churchill and Simon McBurney are among the British theater talents contributing to "The Lockdown Plays," a series of new works you can listen to, but can't see.
Tom Hiddleston reminds us of his stage roots, as does Christopher Walken as Captain Hook
As we continue into a third month in lockdown, the arts continue to suggest ever-changing worlds beyo…
Early James Graham joins various Broadway legends, Irving Berlin and Jerry Herman amongst them
The live-ness of theatre seems further away with every passing week, but at least the art form…
A popular American star vehicle and 'Alice in Wonderland' minute-by-minute figure among the cultural bounty during the week ahead
Can we really be entering a third month in lockdown? Indeed…
Online broadcasts of some of the composer's greatest hits put the spotlight on a 50-year career.
From a much-traveled one-man play to a continent-spanning National Theatre premiere, the theatrical week offers plenty so savour
No one can accuse the gods of streaming of failing to cast a…
In an ever-busy week, the Donmar and Finborough join the online bustle
Has anyone else noticed how fulltime this streaming thing has become? Those who were of a mind to (and who never s…
Sonnets galore also form part of another busy week amidst bizarre times
Time is moving in mysterious ways at the moment. It's been possible over the last month or so to mark out the beginni…
Theatrical extravaganzas could be a long time returning. But until then, there are plenty of great plays with tiny casts.
Sondheim's and Shakespeare's natal days feted. Plus a chance to match wits with a knight and a dame
As lockdown continues, so does the ability of the theatre community to find new ways to t…
Theatre buffs have no shortage of scintillating options during our ongoing shut-in
The lockdown has been extended, but here's the good news: each week whereby we are shut inside seems to br…
Kara Tointon leads a concept-heavy, Victorian-era Shakespeare update
Twelfth Night is rarely long-absent from the British stage and nor is it in our current climate of streaming aplenty. Th…
Musical adaptation celebrates British pluck, coupled with luck
18 months or so after it opened in Chichester, Flowers for Mrs Harris launches a sequence of streamed productions from the Wes…
