Sure, watching theatre online is great, especially at the moment, but how can it ever compare to the real thing? After watching and thoroughly enjoying some, Violet Mackintosh ponders over t…
In an explosion of gig-theatre, cringey 'first time' stories and slut-shaming, Superman provides a colourful and empowering account of the experiences teens exploring their sexuality for the…
Review: Recall @ BE Festival via Zoom3.0starsRecall is a part of BE festival's online programme of theatrical events responding to the unprecedented times we are living in. Exploring the…
Review: Stuff, The Painkiller Project3.0StarsStuff is Bitter Pill Theatre's contribution to the artistic collection of lockdown 2020 " the audio drama directed by Max Elton is part of The Pa…
Review: Elision, Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir @ GIFT Festival3.0StarsHands up if you've become an absolute pro and self-confessed advocate of Zoom calls. Well, now you can take your Zoom obse…
Josephine Balfour Oatts Zoom chats with Tamar Saphra and Emily Renée in our latest feature. They talk about the pigeonholing of artists of colour and why it's not ultimately the worst thing…
Review: Augmented, GIFT Festival 5.0stars As a relaxed performance, writer/performer Sophie Woolley describes her appearance for the audio-description and invites audience to walk around and…
Review: Operation Elsewhere, Big Telly Theatre via Zoom 5.0stars As perfect an opportunity as lockdown is to watch all the films or read all the books you have never quite gotten round to, t…
Review: Less Than Human, York Theatre Royal2.0starsOut of character's < (less than) human by Paul Birch, is an ambitious piece that examines a post-apocalyptic world in which resources ar…
Review: ZARA, Mind the Gap via YouTube3.0starsZARA is a collaboration of Mind the Gap, Walk the Plank, Emergency Exit Arts, wonderful communities and a baby bigger than a double decker bus. …
Review: The Good Book, Slung Low and Leeds People's Theatre 4.0Stars One of the plus sides to lockdown has been the generosity of many companies and artists across the country, who have shar…
Review: Crongton Knights, York Theatre Royal3.0StarsCrongton Knights transforms the inner city into a vibrant fairy tale, full of knights, steeds and quests to save a damsel in distress, but…
Like many creatives doing side-jobs, this writer was on a 0-hour contract and had no idea whether they were going to be furloughed. Here, they talk anonymously about the anxiety they felt be…
Whether you are managing to keep some sort of routine or re-watching the entirety of Gilmore Girls, IT'S OK. Now is as good an opportunity as any to take time for ourselves cos God, we all n…
In the fifth of multi-talented writer, Emma Bentley's series of personal articles, she talks about desperately wanting to write roles for people of colour and the worries she has about being…
Review: The Tempest, Creation Theatre 4.0Stars Having "plans" recently has largely consisted of going to Tesco and walking the dog; these are the kinds of things that exhilarate us now. Ther…
Review: Two Metres Apart, Greengage Ventures4.0StarsTwo Metres Apart is Greengage's contribution to the world of virtual performances. It is one of many to come and it does not disappoint. A…
As well as acting as Associate Director on the West End's Everybody's Talking About Jamie, George Richmond-Scott has his hands full with another project " the Omnibus Theatre's Small Change.…
Just because we're confined to our homes, forced to binge watch Tiger King, doesn't mean the theatre fun has to stop, right? In the second episode of our AYT in Isolation series, we talk to …
Hayley Ricketson, whose show was due to start this month has inevitably been cancelled because of Coronavirus. She writes for us about the support she has had, what her native Australia is d…
Review: Twelfth Night, RSC (via MarqueeTV)3.0starsOur play is set in 1890s England amongst the rural countryside full of beautiful statues, glasshouses and fountains. In this 2017 RSC pr…
When man of many talents, Rob Myles first came up with the idea for Shakespeare-inspired online platform, The Show Must Go Online, he never envisaged it would become so popular. Here, he tal…
Matt Burtcher and Andy George, Directors of the terrific VAULT Festival are facing incredible uncertainty because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Here, they write about the potentially grave im…
Feeling like his theatre company was picking up speed, Jasper Frost was on cloud nine until the pandemic struck. He talks to Samuel Nicholls about what it's now like working with the 'Corona…
Originally performed at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later broadcasted on BBC4, It's True, It's True, It's True is the latest offering from Breach Theatre, a company that Lyn Gardn…