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The Show Must Go Online today announce a special live performance of Ian Doescher's Shakespeare's Star Wars, presented by Quirk Books as part of their Pop Shakespeare Events, livestreamed on Monday 4 May, 9pm.

Curve Theatre in Leicester, currently led by Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster, has developed a reputation for producing and programming bold and innovative work, with many productions going on to tour both in the UK and internationally.

In the third and final installment of Reel Adventures-A Festival of Classics, the wonderful Matthew Bourne's The Car Man celebrated its 20th anniversary last night with a screening on Sky Arts.

The second opportunity for online audiences to enjoy some Royal Ballet repertoire over lockdown is Christopher Wheeldon's adaptation of The Winter's Tale.

The Remote Read revive Sir Tom Stoppard's 1966 television play using the technology of 2020, and provide an interesting insight into theatre's enduring power - and a rattling good play!

Manchester's HOME is kicking off a series of works commissioned specifically to entertain audiences during the lockdown.

Back in 2011, it was nigh-on impossible to get a ticket for the National Theatre's production of Frankenstein.

A new collector's edition of Petula Clark's legendary 1974 concert at the Royal Albert Hall has been released thanks to the tapes having miraculously found and carefully restored!

Produced by Sam Young, Musical Marathon is an online concert performed by over twenty of theatre's leading musical directors to raise money for NHS Charities Together and Acting For Others.

Emma Rees and I started as Executive Director and Artistic Director respectively at Theatre Centre about four months ago.

Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall will deliver an exclusive set from her home in Los Angeles as part of the Royal Albert Home sessions.

Last weekend saw an online celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein's music by Hope Mill Theatre.

National Theatre Live makes its celebrated 2011 production available free for online platforms but, rather like Frankenstein's Creature itself, its reviving isn't without its issues.

I've written about Dust, Akram Khan's work for English National Ballet World War One programme, Lest We Forget, several times.

The BBC has reported that as a part of their new Lockdown Theatre Festival, they will be broadcasting plays on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 that had their runs cut short due to the health crisis.

The Donmar Warehouse announces that Artistic Director Michael Longhurst will direct a special online production of Midnight Your Time by writer Adam Brace.

Charlie Russell from Mischief Theatre, answered OfficialLondonTheatre's 'Tell Us In 10' questions.

This Saturday night, a revival of Sir Tom Stoppard's A Separate Peace - his 1966 play, set in a nursing home - will be broadcast live, starring David Morrissey, Jenna Coleman, Denise Gough, Ed Stoppard, and Maggie Service; Sam Yates directs.

We all need a bit of escapism now, more than ever.

Stars of stage and screen including Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, David Suchet, Dame Penelope Keith, Timothy West, Jamael Westman, Tobias Menzies, Aimee Lou Wood, Grace Saif, Dame Penelope Wilton, and Julie Hesmondhalgh have joined forces to perform Shakespeare's 154 sonnets for Jermyn Street

I owe my career in the arts to Rotherham.

English Touring Theatre have created an animation aimed at families with young children to try and explain what is going on.

Chrystal Genesis is the executive producer of Southbank Centre's Violet Nights initiative and podcast - providing a space for young people to socialise and express their views on, and explore, topical issues with music, performance and discussion.

As a means of bringing joy and creativity into homes during these uncertain times, the Rose has today announced their latest initiative, 'Readings from the Rose'.

Double Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, CBE and Melissa Arnot Reid, the first American woman to ascend and descend Mount Everest without oxygen, have been announced as the next guests on British record holding mountaineer and adventurer Kenton Cool's live streaming show, Cool Conversations