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Matthew Warchus, Artistic Director of the Old Vic has released a statement regarding upcoming performances.

Our intention was to create a community that could respond to the growing crisis by creating a truly live experience a?' performed live, watched live, with interactions between actors and audience in the form of interval and post-show discussions.

Anthony Alderson has been Artistic Director of the Pleasance - which has a permanent venue in Islington, London, and multiple spaces at the heart of the Edinburgh Fringe - since 2005.

Hampstead Theatre has announced an extension of its free, digital streaming series in partnership with The Guardian.

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre have today announced that, following the extension of London theatre closures and continued government restrictions, their production of Romeo and Juliet a?" which was to have started rehearsals in May a?" has been postponed to the corresponding dates in 2021.

After a hugely successful debut in 2018 at London's Old Vic Theatre and a subsequent UK tour, Emma Rice's highly theatrical adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children is a welcome and absurdist addition to the BBC's Culture in Quarantine series, filmed at York Theatre Royal in 2019.

This Spring, the Royal Shakespeare Company will hand over its channels to the global community, in the largest ever celebration of Shakespeare by audiences in its history.

Perhaps one of Kander & Ebb's lesser-known works, musical comedy Curtains opened to mixed reviews on Broadway back in 2007, where it starred David Hyde Pierce as Lieutenant Cioffi.

Before lockdown, Hoopla were running improv classes and shows at multiple venues across London to over 1,000 people each season.

A surfeit of exposition and shouty scenes detract from an important story that resonates to this day.

The Show Must Go Online today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part III.

Juggling parenthood and a freelance arts career (I'm a playwright and director) was never easy to begin with, but with the country in lockdown, things just got a hell of a lot harder.

Since taking the lead as Birmingham Royal Ballet's Director just three months ago, Carlos Acosta certainly hasn't had the easiest time of it.

MPTheatricals are working in collaboration with The Other Palace to present on hope: a digital song cycle - a live, one of a kind musical theatre trilogy exploring the many shades of hope.

Natalya Romaniw has been called 'the outstanding soprano her generation'.

A number of West End stars came together to perform 'You'll Never Walk Alone' from Carousel.

Already in its third week, the Royal Opera House's streaming initiative #OurHouseToYourHouse, turned to Jonathan Miller's modern version of Mozart's Così fan tutte.

Premiering at Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2018 (although first produced in Sheffield in 2016), Daniel Evans' production of Flowers for Mrs Harris takes us on a heart-warming journey of self-discovery.

Following a short run in Bristol at the beginning of the year, Wise Children's Romantics Anonymous was due to head across the Atlantic for an American tour a?' and their new tour of Malory Towers was also on the verge of opening in Cumbria.

After the riotous One Man Two Guvnors from the National Theatre At Home series, comes Sally Cookson's fervent adaptation of Jane Eyre.

At its height in the late 90s, Who Wants to be a Millionaire was must-see television.

Just after reaching its initial £10,000 target in a public fundraising campaign, Jermyn Street Theatre was severely flooded on Wednesday 8 April.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) today (Thursday 9 April 2020) announced that all performances, events and activities will be cancelled up to and including Tuesday 30 June 2020.

BBC Proms has delayed the announcement of its 2020 season.