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Company Three today announces and celebrates the closure of the Coronavirus Time Capsule, a creative digital record of an 18-week period in the lives of 3,225 young people from 215 youth theatre companies across 18 countries.

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery has received recognition from the tourism industry for the responsible handling of its reopening earlier this month.

Nevill Holt Opera has announced six concerts will take places in the gardens of the Nevill Holt Estate on the 29th August, 5th and 12th September, with two performances on each date.

Leading production company Fane have announced the launch of Fane Online - a digital programme of live streamed events featuring an eclectic array of high-profile figures.

Following the latest government advice, Northern Stage will postpone its autumn season productions Red Ellen, The Invisible Man and Gatsby, and Christmas shows The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Hey Diddle Diddle Christmas Spectacular from Kitchen Zoo.

Sphinx Theatre, the UK's longest established women's theatre company, and 15 of the UK's leading theatres have announced the playwrights they will be supporting via Sphinx 30, the landmark programme for female playwrights in the UK being launched to mark Sphinx's 30th anniversary.

BBC will present In The Studio: Eric Whitacre a?" Creating the Virtual Choir, as part of BBC World Service,  Tuesday 28 July 1130-1200 BST.

Residents of Scarborough's Eastfield area are invited to bid to take part in an innovative new project from the town's Stephen Joseph Theatre and VOXED: #goggledance.

While The Good Enough Mums Club, a poignant and hilarious musical romp, undergoes new development in lockdown, the team have announced a new podcast series to explore the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of motherhood during this especially challenging time.

Created in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, this week, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Lightpost Company began their series of free online events titled Fix It: Time to Breathe.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is today announcing it has this week commissioned four Outer East London and Essex writers to work collaboratively with Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul.

ArtsEd has announced the appointment of theatre and film director, Nicholai La Barrie to their Board of Trustees.

Phina Oruche (Anthony and Taken Down, BBC; Footballers' Wives, ITV) has turned her hand to a different kind of storytelling during the Covid-19 lockdown.

On Saturday July 18, at 2:30 PM Dublin time (GMT+1:00, EST 9:30 AM), Heresy Records' recording artist Caitríona O'Leary (www.

Following the opening episode of The Revival, which centred around the Nottingham Playhouse 2018 production of The Madness of George III, today Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Stratford East announce that King Hedley II will be the subject of episode 2, which is available from July 15.

Since its launch, over 250 people from different areas of the country have come together as part of the national storytelling project, ImagiNation, led by Theatre Centre and Theatre503.

London Theatre Runway is a bespoke training and connectivity programme for performing arts graduates which will be based at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

David Meredith, Albany Theatre Chair, says 'Zarah has a genuine and deep interest in the Arts and is playing an active role in the campaign to save and support the UK arts industry that has been so badly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

During the lockdown, Aynrand Ferrer and Kristine Diaz decided to revisit one of the most iconic songs in Miss Saigon, a?oeI Still Believe.

Chichester Festival Theatre will present a day of outdoor performances alongside a Drive-In Cinema, working in partnership with Chichester Cinema at New Park, over the August Bank Holiday weekend (28 a?" 31 August).

Freelance musician Ben Marshall recently gathered a group of a dozen musicians to perform in Greenwich Park, as venue remain closed due to the health crisis.

A new hub for Mothers Who Make will come to Northamptonshire led by Carbon Theatre's Courtenay Johnson and storyteller Jo Blake, with the support of Royal & Derngate and The Core at Corby Cube with start-up funding from the Avon Fund, Northamptonshire Community Foundation.

With the easing restrictions on outdoor performance, award-winning theatre company 20 Stories High takes to the streets of Toxteth and Liverpool 8 with a unique piece of interactive doorstep theatre, premiering on Wednesday 15 July (previews 14 July).

Due to the continued uncertainty around when theatres can reopen and live performance can once again be staged, it has become necessary for Thursford Christmas Spectacular to postpone until 2021.

Reading Fringe 2020 begins this week - and the eighth edition of the festival is not only the first to take place entirely online but is also the most accessible yet.