Covid-19
Home Made with MGA
Wonder Fools lead Academy’s Zoom production:
Edinburgh’s MGA Academy has teamed up with Wonder Fools to create Home Made, a new online Zoom production with their 3rd year acting students, streaming live this Friday 15 May 2020.
Complicite’s Encounter goes online
2015 EdIntFest hit to get free YouTube streaming:
Simon McBurney’s hit show The Encounter for Complicité theatre company, which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, is to get a free online streaming from this Friday, 15 May 2020. It will remain online for a week.
Dogstar Online
Taylor of Inverness first up for Vimeo On Demand:
Dogstar Theatre, the Highlands-based company with a European outlook, is to stream a filmed version of its international hit The Taylor of Inverness as the first show in a new paid-for online presence.
Playhouse dark to July
ATG Venues now closed to June 28 2020:
Venue operator ATG has announced that all its UK venues, including the Playhouse in Edinburgh and the King’s and Theatre Royal in Glasgow will be closed at least until 28 June 2020 due to Covid-19.
Mormon reschedules
Book of Mormon moves Playhouse dates to 2021:
Smash hit musical The Book of Mormon has announced new dates for Edinburgh Playhouse and will now run for a long fortnight from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 26 June 2021.
May the Fourth be with Will
Star Wars Shakespeare parody to get live reading:
The people behind the weekly Shakespeare live reading are stepping up to the plate today, May the Fourth, to give a live reading of Ian Doescher’s Star Wars.
Hot streaming lunchtime theatre
PPP to stream mini season From The Archives:
Glasgow’s A Play, Pie and a Pint lunchtime theatre is to stream a mini season of its existing hit shows on YouTube, one a week, initially over the next three weeks.
Zoom to Werk with VPT
VPT returns on Friday with Zoom event:
Village Pub Theatre are running their second Virtual Pub Theatre on Friday the First of May 2020. And, to celebrate International Worker’s Day, the theme is WERK!
House lights up!
Lyceum reveals lock-down & re-start plans:
Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre has announced House Lights Up, a series of initiatives for the coming months of lockdown, as well as projects preparing to celebrate the theatre’s re-opening, when that day eventually comes.
Phone Fictions online
Visible Fictions host Watch Party:
Glasgow-based theatre company Visible Fictions, whose aim is “to get people thinking, talking, sharing and creating” is premiering the results of a project to create short films on mobile phones.
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