Available onlineHeadlong's superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton A week before the Covid-19 lockdo…
Hay Festival DigitalWith inimitable style Smith excavates a common pun and, illustrated by film clips, explores the transformative power of a single word The best arts and entertainment dur…
German dramatist best known for his 1963 play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) about the Catholic church and the HolocaustIt is rare nowadays for a playwright to trigger public contro…
Project including monologues will be shown on Zoom to help expose 'hidden problem' in UK Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A series of plays and monologues will…
Available onlineThe playwright and his wife, actor Heather Stoney, play all eight parts " from 70-somethings to teenagers " in his 84th drama Alan Ayckbourn's hefty oeuvre lingers on the fau…
As his parliamentary epic is streamed for National Theatre at Home, the playwright discusses politics of the past and present " and the future of theatre The best theatre and dance to watch…
London arts organisation calls for more funds as Covid-19 lockdown hits cash reserves Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK's largest arts and cultural orga…
Audio downloadSixty years on, the taboo-busting comic can seem incoherent and insensitive but there's no doubting his masterful wordplay He may be the least listened-to of standup icons. No …
Manchester international festivalBooze, music and martial-arts lessons are punctuated by existential musings in this delightfully strange virtual blowout Hottest front-room seats: best theat…
Britain's most prolific playwright is producing and acting in his own audio play, but he holds out little hope for live theatre in the short term Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most ad…
Since his electrifying breakthrough as a hip-hopping Hamlet, the actor hasn't stopped. He talks about overcoming challenges and his role in the provocative new BBC series from the creator of…
Sadler's Wells Digital StagePart dance performance, part film, this solo show is a note-perfect portrayal of the all-consuming nature of loneliness Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and…
Festivals cancelled, venues shut and funding shelved: Covid-19 has forced those working in theatre to rethink their art form 'It's like the seven stages of grief," says Paula Varjack, of th…
Sonia Friedman calls for rescue package to save more than 1,000 theatres from permanent closure British theatre is on the "brink of total collapse", according to one of the industry's most s…
Arts venue has lost 75% of its income because of coronavirus crisis The National Theatre has warned it will have to make significant numbers of staff redundant unless it receives additional …
£700,000 loss forces landmark theatre to cancel entire 2020 programme in hope of emerging renewed next spring " and staving off financial fate of other venues The Royal Lyceum theatre in …
Self-taught engineer who revolutionised spectacle on stage, in stadiums and in the public arena Alan Jacobi, who has died of cancer aged 67, transformed the entertainment industry by bringin…
The brilliant creativity of British theatre must be safeguarded " and not just the great national institutions Theatre has brave new thinking in its bones. What is it, if not the imagining a…
The award-winning Within Her Eyes and two more experimental dance works reveal the storytelling strengths of this talented choreographer Her feet never touch the ground. That's the premise o…
As the Young Vic's 2014 production is streamed for National Theatre at Home, its star reveals how deeply she inhabited her character The best theatre and dance to watch online The best arts…
As Gillian Anderson stars in the Young Vic's A Streetcar Named Desire " streamed by the National Theatre " can you tell which of these lines belong to Blanche Dubois and which are spoken by …
As his novel The Understudy is turned into a radio play starring Stephen Fry, the writer talks about his own failed acting career " and what dramas will be like after the coronavirus Long be…
Available onlineA starry cast muse on first bras, prom dresses, marriage and motherhood in Nora and Delia Ephron's magnificent celebration of clothes " and life Hottest front-room seats: be…
Letter to culture secretary asks for urgent help to 'shore up our cultural landscape' Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A call for the government to step up wit…
Yard theatre, Hackney WickThis all-day online festival included a one-to-one performance over the phone, a Ghanaian cook-along and a virtual after-party Hottest front-room seats: the best t…