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Musicals and shows to watch

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals

The king of musical theatre himself, Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be streaming a production of one of his musicals on YouTube each week to lift our sprits during the coronavirus lockdown. He has called it the aptly named ‘The Shows Must Go On!’ and it will begin with his 2000 adaptation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Each show will be available for a limited 48-hour period online every Friday from 7pm, with Jesus Christ Superstar, starring , Chris Moyles and Mel C being the next on the list.

Globe Player: Shakespeare on demand

Calling all Shakespeare fans! Shakespeare's Globe has announced it will release 40 productions on its Globe Player service over the next month for free. The shows will include starring artistic director Michelle Terry (2018), Romeo and with Ellie Kendrick and Adetomiwa Edun (2009), A Midsummer Night's Dream with Michelle Terry (2013), The Winter's Tale with Annette Badland (2018), The Two Noble Kinsmen with Brian Dick (2018) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (2019) with Bryony Hannah. All Globe Player productions are captioned, with each show presented for two weeks on a rolling cycle from 6 April.

National Theatre at Home

The National Theatre is kindly offering up entertainment one evening a week, for the next few weeks, with a selection of its much-loved productions being made available to watch on YouTube. NT Live is the live transmission of a performance from a theatre straight into cinemas dotted around the world. Each production will be free and screened live every Thursday at 7pm, and will then be available on demand for seven days. The new initiative is called the National Theatre at Home and kicked off with One Man, Two Guvnors starring James Corden. It is also set to include Sally Cookson’s stage adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre on 9 April, Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island on 16 April, and on 23 April featuring Tamsin Greig as Malvolia in Shakespeare's classic comedy. Get the popcorn ready...

The Wind in the Willows Robbie Jack

This brilliantly fun West End production is being made available for free (although the theatre company are asking you to make a small donation for a variety of theatrical charities).

The Metropolitan Opera

The Met Opera is helping everyone through coronavirus lockdown by 'brightening the lives of our audience members even while our stage is dark'. It says: 'Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 pm EDT until 6:30 pm the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years

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of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.' Wagner's Parsifal, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, and Verdi's Falstaff are all in the upcoming schedule. The streaming is free, but you have the option to donate towards helping to keep the Met running.

BBC iPlayer: Royal Shakespeare Company shows

DAVID M. BENETT

The BBC has announced that it will stream six RSC shows over the next few weeks as part of its "Culture in Quarantine" scheme to run while arts venues are locked down. The shows include: with and Niamh Cusack; with in the title role and Lucian Msamati as Iago; with Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet; with Makram J Khoury as Shylock; with Edward Bennett as Benedick and Michelle Terry as Beatrice; and Hamlet with Paapa Essiedu in the title role.