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Birmingham Opera Company have today announced that they will share some of their  ground-breaking and acclaimed work online in the coming months.

Following conversations with freelance artists, Theatr Clwyd is introducing A Chance Encounter, a virtual networking initiative which aims to connect Welsh, Wales-based and local artists during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Philharmonia Orchestra has today announced The Philharmonia Sessions a?" a summer programme of three world class free digital concerts, broadcast on YouTube and conceived and created especially for an online audience.

Fuel have today announced Charlie Ward At Home, a reimagining of Sound&Fury's celebrated installation for audiences to experience at home for the first time.

Storyhouse has announced today that it will re-open as soon as the government allows and as early as 4th July.

To mark the summer solstice, Darlington Hippodrome is offering tickets for a variety of shows at just £20* during daylight hours on Saturday 20 June.

The Barn Theatre has announced their next two virtual musical theatre concerts celebrating the music of the award-winning musical theatre writing team Amies & Clements (Stephanie Jayne Amies and Teddy Clements) and musical theatre playwright, lyricist and director Annabel Mutale Reed.

The full screening of the Lyric Theatre's Good Vibrations is now available to watch for just 24 hours from 8pm on 17th June.

The building may be closed but the shows go on.

Tomorrow, Friday 19 June at 7.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a partnership between Robert Gordon University's (RGU) Gray's School of Art, Look Again and independent design agency Design and Code, is working collaboratively with the graduating students of 2020 to create a Virtual Degree Show to run 10th a?" 19th July 2020.

Starting as a street food venture in North London, Nanny Bill's now has restaurants across London including Boxpark Wembley and Vinegar Yard in London Bridge.

On Saturday 23 May over 8,000 people tuned in to support Bristol's music scene as Colston Hall teamed up with a host of the city's venues including Exchange, Trinity, The Louisiana and many others to live stream a 10-hour festival of local and national talent in the Bristol Takeover, raising over £

Atlas Obscura has reported that archaeologists may have excavated The Red Lion, what is believed to be London's Oldest Elizabethan Playhouse, dating back to 1567.

Midsummer Festival is a free one-day festival celebrating arts and culture in the West Midlands.

This summer, Guildhall School of Music & Drama's opera double bill has been transformed from the physical to the digital stage, with the creative team and artists from across the School bringing the productions to life from their homes using digital technology.

British Theatre is revered globally for its innovation and quality but stage doors are currently shut with no set date for reopening.

Sadler's Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and Ecole des Sables will present Dancing at Dusk a?" A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring.

The Mercury Theatre Colchester and Josef Weinberger Plays have announced the participants joining their new Mercury Playwrights development programme, designed to nurture creative talent in the East of England, which has taken a considerable hit from Covid-19 uncertainties.

New Diorama Theatre and Incoming Festival present work_from_home an entirely online theatrical experience·      

'Twelfth Night a?" Live!' premiered on Zoom over three nights only last week and was a complete sellout a?" an audience and critical hit!

Following the success of their online plays, The Understudy and Nigel Slater's 'Toast', The Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield has announced that it has commissioned three critically acclaimed, UK dance companies to create three, site specific works for camera.

Last week, in response to the killing of George Floyd in the US and its impact on black Britons, the Bush Theatre approached its wide-ranging community of black artists and asked six of them to respond in the moment, however they saw fit.

Responding to the needs of healthcare workers and aspiring young producers in the Midlands, independent production studio China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre are working together on digital projects designed to serve their communities.

DROWNTOWN, the new show from choreographer/theatremaker Rhiannon Faith, was set to tour this spring/summer with a Barbican run set for June and July, but for due to Covid19 all that has been postponed until 2021 (when it is hoped the Barbican dates can be rescheduled).