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stream.theatre have added even more exclusive events to the schedule in the coming months, from hit concerts to a reprise of one of last year’s most popular streaming events.
Jason Robert Brown’s
Songs For A New World makes a streaming return from 21 – 28 February 2021. Starring Rachel John (
Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (
Motown) and Rachel Tucker (
Come From Away), the self-filmed musical was a fan favourite last year and makes its stream.theatre debut, on demand.
Last summer’s biggest outdoor musicals event
West End Drive In makes its streaming debut in February and March. With five fantastic concerts, and a host of theatre favourites, audiences can relish in the electric festival atmosphere from the comfort of their home.
5 January 2021 • 5:31pm
2020 was terrible, but the worst may be yet to come: the West End s closed Lyric Theatre
Credit: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
So the theatre industry is gritting its teeth once again. As we plunge once more into national lockdown, an anonymous theatre producer confided to me: “It feels like we’ve gone back from recovery mode to survival mode”.
Certainly the implications of the virus variant(s) and questions about vaccine roll-out are enough to daunt even the most battle-hardened in the industry which has been more or less shut down since London was plunged into tier 3 in mid-December. I asked several leading players about a timeline in terms of reopening, first with social distancing then the holy grail of reverting to the norm of this time last year. “We are as in the dark as everybody now,” confesses Julian Bird, chief executive of SOLT (the Society of London Theatre) and UK Theatre (the key body for regional playhouses).
The West End panto forced to move to Easter – if it can survive
Potted Panto – seven pantomimes in one – had their run cut short when London moved to Tier 3. Will they be laughing in April?
It s behind you! Potted Panto finished early in the West End
Credit: Geraint Lewis
Is Easter the new Christmas? Producer James Seabright certainly hopes so. His Potted Panto, a best-bits of compendium of seven different pantomimes, opened and then closed prematurely in the West End when London was put into Tier 3. So, he’s planning another run at Easter, beginning April 1.
“It makes sense with our schedule, because we do daytime performances to coincide with the school holidays,” he explains. “I know it’s unusual to have an Easter panto, but why not? It’s designed for people having a family celebration and getting together, which we’ll probably all want around then.”
What a WASTE of time and money: West End restaurateurs slam being forced to close as they throw out unused food after Covid cops clear away the last of London s drinkers before city enters Tier 3
Londoners were seen enjoying a final pint on the last night before they have to close when Tier 3 is imposed
Drinkers enjoyed a final meal and drink in Covent Garden and Soho this evening as tables packed out
Police arrived to order crowds to leave as London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire enter Tier 3 tonight
As pubs and restaurants shut, hospitality experts warned millions of pounds worth of food could go to waste