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  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Online theatre games — where spies and murderers lurk

    These immersive productions offer a chance to escape the world and share a live experience

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani on a dance to the music of friendship

    The actors discuss stretching their acting and dancing muscles in a new drama livestreamed from London’s Almeida Theatre

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Playwright’s tough talk brought back to life

    Four vivid monologues by Peter Barnes have been revived and filmed in a rare outing for the dramatist

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    Theatre that rethinks the box

    The struggling live events sector could be revived by a new Vertical Theatre concept

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Writer Lorien Haynes on her new streamed drama, Good Grief

    ‘I wanted it to be full of joy and light,’ says Haynes of her new filmed drama about the death of her close friend

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Interview
    Theatre director Eline Arbo: ‘It’s an exercise in empathy’

    In her staging of Edouard Louis’ brutal autobiographical novel, Arbo wants us to see all sides

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Arts
    Is multi-view streaming the future for the performing arts?

    The latest online productions offer audiences a choice of camera angles

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Adventures in theatre’s digital realm

    Two online festivals show that the urge to experiment remains undimmed

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Interview
    Satchmo meets Shakespeare: the great, lost jazz-age musical

    A 1939 version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ has inspired the RSC’s Gregory Doran to stage a reconstruction

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Review
    David Bowie’s Lazarus honours his memory, in its own way

    The singer’s stage musical, co-written by Enda Walsh, is available as a streamed film

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Interview
    Actor Toby Jones on Uncle Vanya: ‘It’s so crazy how relevant this play is’

    Jones, who stars in a new filmed production of Chekhov’s play, talks about comedy and sadness, the survival of theatre and the importance of being physical

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    ReviewTelevision
    The Goes Wrong Show’s Nativity and Ghosts Christmas special — boisterous festive fare

    A busy manger and a mansion full of spirits make for calamitous Christmas viewing in two BBC1 shows

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    How theatres tried to stage a recovery in 2020

    The industry has been through dark times, but innovation and resourcefulness have shone through the gloom

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Review
    Top 10 family theatre shows to watch at home with younger viewers

    Festive performances online offer a chance to enjoy shows with children and teenagers, together or apart

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Review
    Theatres reopen into an uncertain Christmas present

    Simon Russell Beale excels in A Christmas Carol, plus Nine Lessons and Carols, The Dumb Waiter and Potted Panto

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    Top 10 theatre shows to watch at home over Christmas

    Our pick of the best performances available online, from festive ‘Christmas Carols’ to ghost stories told on WhatsApp

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Theatres hit by lack of Covid insurance as London’s West End reopens

    Producers focus on smaller shows to mitigate the financial risk of cancellations

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Living Newspaper: how the Royal Court is bringing current affairs to life

    A bold project aims to provide a counter-narrative to mainstream media — and fake news

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    FT SeriesWomen of 2020
    Belarus Free Theatre’s Natalia Kaliada on staging revolution 

     ‘As hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets, we too have decided to take our theatre outside’

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    A Christmas Carol: why Dickens’s fable is a tale for today

    Nicholas Hytner and Jack Thorne talk about adapting the story for 2020 and pinpoint its contemporary resonances

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    A London theatre’s fresh-air vision spells hope for the future

    The east London Arcola theatre is constructing a new outdoor space for Covid — and beyond

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Interview
    Jenny Caron Hall on her unfinished business with Shakespeare

    She quit her stage career in the 1980s, but the death of her famous father, Peter, has sparked her return

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    InterviewTelevision
    Small Axe star Shaun Parkes: ‘I’ve realised that I love the real stuff’

    The actor relished his role as a café owner in Steve McQueen’s new film about protest and black culture in 1970s London

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Review
    Death of England: Delroy, plus the best theatre to stream

    A blazing drama about a man undone by racial profiling played for just one night at the National Theatre

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Women of myth come out of the shadows in ‘15 Heroines’

    A radical ancient text that revisits classical legends is being adapted for the stage by London’s Jermyn Street Theatre

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