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Clowns and performers deliver letter to No 10 calling for the urgent reopening of venues after lockdown
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Interviews to be turned into series of short plays to ensure contributions are not forgotten
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From live-streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon
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Powerful political dance from Brooklyn’s FlexN and the spectacle of the Helicopter String Quartet are part of British artistic director’s programme
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The late-night hub is replacing its cancelled fringe programme with new virtual offerings alongside archive footage
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The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about ‘bittersweet’ success – and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon
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The Leap of Dance academy has brought ballet to children in a poor district in Africa’s largest megacity
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Throughout June, photographer Joanna Vestey photographed the caretakers of 20 closed London theatres, in situ, for a project titled Custodians for Covid. Its aim, through sales of limited edition prints, is to raise funds for the pandemic-threatened arts institutions
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The Guardian and the Unicorn theatre present a fun series of short performances, created in lockdown, for children aged three to eight. Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom is available from 11am on 13 June until 8pm on 27 July.
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As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’
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The Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston, is being streamed for National Theatre at Home. Here are some of the other stagings of the bold and bloody tragedy
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This is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion
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Flute Theatre’s game-based production of Pericles, performed online for one family at a time, is designed to create a sense of calm
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It would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
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