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Online Theatre 2020
The Theatreguide.London Reviews
In March 2020 the covid-19 epidemic
forced the closure of all British theatres. Some companies adapted
by putting archive recordings of past productions online, others
by streaming new shows. And there are past productions worth
rediscovering online. With things returning to normal, we continue
to supplement our live reviews with coverage of productions you
can watch at home.
(Note that most of these shows continue to be available online after 2020)
ACT ONE - Lincoln Center and YouTube. Dramatisation of Moss Hart's memoir of getting a start in the theatre. Summer 2020
ADDING
MACHINE - Finborough Theatre. Chamber opera
adaptation of Elmer Rice play about a nobody. Autumn 2020
AMSTERDAM - Orange Tree Theatre online. Modern woman's experience uncovers WW2 secrets. Spring-Summer 2020
APOLLO 13: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
- Original Theatre Online. What do astronauts think
about when stranded in space? Autumn 2020
BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES - National Theatre At Home. The barber shop as a gathering place in African culture. Spring 2020
BARNUM - YouTube. 1986 Recording of Cy Coleman musical about fabled American showman. Autumn 2020
BUBBLE - Nottingham Playhouse. Romantic
comedy set in lockdown. Autumn 2020
COMPANY - YouTube. 2006 Broadway revival of Sondheim musical, with Raul Esparza. Summer 2020
CONFLICT - Mint Theater. 1925 drama of politics and passions. Autumn 2020
THE COURAGE TO RIGHT A WOMAN'S WRONGS - Red Bull Theater. Romantic comedy-drama from the Spanish Golden Age. November 2020
CRIME OF THE CENTURY -
Chickenshed. How young people drift into violence and
crime. December 2020
DEATH OF A HUNTER -
Finborough Theatre. Rolf Hochhuth play about Earnest
Hemingway. Autumn 2020
THE DEEP BLUE SEA - National Theatre At Home. 2016 revival of Terrence Rattigan drama of overpowering love. Summer 2020
THE DEEP BLUE SEA - YouTube. 1994 BBC production of Terence Rattigan play
42nd STREET - The Shows
Must Go On and YouTube. 2017 London revival of classic
backstage musical. December 2020
FRANKENSTEIN - National Theatre At Home. Video recording of 2011 NT staging. Spring 2020
GHOST LIGHT - National Theatre of
Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival. Salute to
Scottish theatre through excerpts. Summer 2020
HOME - YouTube. David Storey's 1970 drama with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Summer 2020
THE ICEMAN COMETH - YouTube. 1960 American television production of O'Neill drama. Summer 2020
IN THE ABSENCE OF SILENCE -
Chickenshed Theatre. Survivors of spousal abuse. Winter
2020
IT IS EASY TO BE DEAD - Finborough Theatre. Video recording of play about WW1 poet Charles Hamilton Sorley. Spring 2020
JANE CLEGG - Finborough Theatre.
2019 revival of 1913 drama of a wife's discoveries about her husband.
Summer 2020
KINGS OF BROADWAY 2020 -
broadwayworld.com and YouTube. From-home performances of
songs by Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim. Summer 2020
THE LINE - Public Theater and YouTube. Verbatim drama of health workers facing Covid in New York City. Summer 2020
MACBETH - RSC and YouTube.
1979 RSC production with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. Summer 2020
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III - National Theatre At Home. 2018 Nottingham Playhouse production of Alan Bennett's play. Summer 2020
A MARVELLOUS PARTY -
StreamTheatre. All-star Zoom theatre salute to Noel Coward.
Autumn 2020
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - BBC Culture in Quarantine. Shakespeare's Globe production of the comedy. 2020
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - BBC Culture in Quarantine. RSC production of Shakespeare comedy. 2020
NO MILK FOR THE FOXES - Beats & Elements and YouTube. Lives of the just-barely-employed class. Summer 2020
THE NANCE - PBS and YouTube. 2013 Broadway comedy about gay burlesque comic. Autumn 2020
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS - YouTube.
1964 television version of 1959 musical 2020
PORGY AND BESS - Metropolitan Opera.
Gershwin-Heyward opera. Summer 2020
PRESENT LAUGHTER - Vaudeville
Theatre, BBC and YouTube. 1981 production of Noel Coward
comedy. 2020
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL - Graeae and YouTube. Salute to friendship, romance, family and Ian Dury. Summer 2020
RIDERS TO THE SEA - Druid
Theatre Company. One-act Synge play of grieving women.
December 2020
ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival and YouTube. 2017 Canadian production. Summer 2020
SCENES FOR SURVIVAL I - National Theatre of Scotland. Under-ten-minute plays . Autumn 2020
SCENES FOR SURVIVAL II - National
Theatre of Scotland. A further selection of short plays
Autumn 2020
THE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA -
Greenwich Theatre and YouTube. Steven Berkoff imagines the
love letters of Hamlet and Ophelia. Summer 2020
A SEPARATE PEACE - The Remote Read. Tom Stoppard radio play staged for online performance. Spring 2020
THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN - Druid
Theatre Company. One-Act dark comedy by J M Synge.
December 2020
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE -
National Theatre At Home. 2014 Young Vic production with
Gillian Anderson. Spring 2020
TAKE ME TO THE WORLD - A STEPHEN SONDHEIM 90th BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE - YouTube. Online production with singers performing in their homes. Spring 2020
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Stratford
Festival and YouTube 2015 Canadian production of
Shakespeare. Summer 2020
TROUBLE IN TAHITI - Opera North At Home. Leonard Bernstein's one-hour opera about American suburbia Spring 2020
UNTIL THE FLOOD - Traverse Theatre. Verbatim performance in the aftermath of a policeman's shooting of a black youth. December 2020
VOILA! Europe Festival. Virtual festival featuring streamed and Zoom performances from across Europe. November 2020
WATCHING ROSIE - originaltheatreonline. Short play about dementia in the time of Covid. Summer 2020
WHAT
THE BUTLER SAW - Curve, Leicester. Joe Orton
farce of mad madhouse. December 2020
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES - YouTube. 1991
Broadway musical about the American humourist, with Keith Carradine.
Summer 2020
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN - Mint Theater. 1938 play set in the teachers' lounge of a girls' school. Summer 2020
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