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The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity
If you are thinking of experimenting with this strange new medium and want to worry about global warming instead of a pandemic for a change, read on for what I thought back in October.
As his new digital sheet music store New UK Musicals launches, I talk with multi-award winning composer and lyricist Darren Clark about the site and his career.
To take a play as epic in scale as Coriolanus and find a natural home within the intimacy of London's Donmar Warehouse takes a skill and lightness of touch that is not only rare but all so o…
For better or worse, the association between theatre, television and film has only grown closer in the last ten years, not just with artists moving between the different genres but also in t…
Reading that the Globe may struggle to come back from this current crisis without the help of donations and emergency funding didn't seem quite real.
Emma Clarendon chatted to Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley about their new not-for-profit organisation, Burn Bright.
Life on the lowest rung of the theatrical ladder. There are lots of in-jokes with digs at actors, directors, the rehearsal process, theatrical agents, critics and the site-specific trend.
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art?
Nigel Slater's Toast returns to the Lawrence Batley Theatre as a brand-new online adaptation - part radio play, part animated film - airing from 1 to 31 July 2020.
Free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On continues its theatre lockdown weekly schedule with another 'live' television broadcast of a Broadway musical, Peter Pan Live!
There are some staggering contemporary references to draw from this staging of a lesser-known Shakespeare, starring Tom Hiddleston.
My play Paper Cuts went live on Bloom Theatre's YouTube channel last month. This play was a long time coming… hopefully, this isn't the end, and it's got a way to run.
The Pillowman, which was due to make its West End premiere this summer, has been delayed until 2021.
Dillon rose to public prominence in 2006, competing in TV's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and from there has gone on to leading roles in musical theatre. Away from the spotlight, re…
The Old Vic's new artistic initiative combines a run of socially distanced performances of Duncan MacMillan's LUNGS, starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith, and a series of rehearsed play-readin…
'We've spent seven years building to this point and three years to open the thing, changed the area and culture of the place, and in the snap of the fingers, it's a ghost town.'
Alan Bennett's epic multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III, starring Mark Gatiss in the title role, will be streamed from next Thursday 11 June 2020 via National Theatre at Home.
When it was first performed in 2012 James Graham's This House was an affectionate satire, using its 1970s setting to examine the still young Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition governmen…
The government stance appears to be that the arts is on its own and needs to prove its worth. I think, and hope, theatre has over many years of serving towns, topics and communities. I want …
The latest statement from the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) - on behalf of the major commercial West End theatre operators - has been issued today, confirming that theatres will remain cl…
The Great Gatsby, which had previously set a record as the UK's longest-running immersive production, is planning to re-open at Immersive | Ldn in Mayfair on 1 October 2020.
The Show Must Go Online was firmly back in history mode with the beginning of Shakespeare's second tetralogy in Richard II. Not quite as much bloodshed as the previous set of histories that …
This revival of a 2011 HighTide hit, reconceived for streaming, stars Diana Quick and is intimate and quietly moving.
Due to the continuing lockdown, alongside Government advice that social distancing will need to remain in place for some time, the Company has made the difficult decision to postpone all rem…
