The latest digital theatre from Paines Plough is a series of 6 vignettes – longest is 8 minutes – about different aspects of life in lockdown. Image: Michael Windsor-Ungureanu You sign up with your email and twice a day for three days you get sent an email link to watch a video online. Written by…

What A Carve Up! is a digital theatre adaptation of Jonathan Coe's satirical murder mystery novel, published in 1994, updated to include contemporary references – think scandals and newspaper headlines. Alfred Enoch as Raymond Winshaw in What A Carve Up! On one level it's a documentary-style investigation into the gruesome murder of the notoriously powerful…

Creation Theatre has taken online live performance to a whole new level with its latest family show Alice. Leda Douglas in Creation Theatre's Alice Described as a virtual theme park, this is part interactive theatre, part style your own adventure, part video game and it is enjoyed from the comfort of your own living room.…

Anyone who has followed my blog for a while will know my favourite actor is Ben Whishaw. It's an admiration of talent pure and simple, I may not always like the play (or film) he chooses but he never disappoints in what he brings to his roles. Ben Whishaw in Bakkhai at Almeida Theatre. Photo:…

Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, reports of anti-Asian hate crime have tripled, in response, a collective of UK creatives of East and South East Asian heritage have put together an online event We R Not Virus. Live-streamed on two days – 13 & 14 June – via Zoom the free event will feature…

Headlong is collaborating with Century Films to present a series of 8 brand new digital plays for broadcast during coronavirus lockdown.  'Unprecedented' will be written by a diverse group of writers including James Graham, April De Angelis and Nathaniel Martello-White and recorded using digital conference technology, combining live and pre-recorded material. Each play will pick…

When Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti was cancelled in Birmingham because of protests she said in a Guardian interview: “Theatre is not necessarily a cosy space, designed to make us feel good about ourselves”. A Kind of People, Royal Court. Photo: Manuel Harlan And while A Kind of People generates a lot of laughter it…

It happened with Jake Gyllenhaal earlier this year and now it's Theo James' turn to get my hopes up and then dash them. I'm talking about a casting announcement of an actor I really like only to realise it's a musical. James first appeared on my radar properly in the Divergent film series – I'm…

This is something good to look forward to in the dark days of January and February next year, Stan-fav Richard Armitage and Toby Jones are taking to the stage. Uncle Vanya with Toby Jones and Richard Armitage © Muse Creative Communications. Photo by Seamus Ryan They will appear in a new adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle…

Chuffed to find out that I've made it into Vuelio's top 10 UK theatre blogs once again. I'm in such esteemed company it is embarrassing. You can find out here how Vuelio ranks blogs but one of the measurements is engagement and that means you wonderful people who read, comment and share my posts. Thank…