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The best theatre to stream this month

Our monthly roundup of live streams and on-demand stage productions to enjoy at home

  • Lindsay Duncan in Dear Octopus.

    The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

    Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows
  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

    This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance
  • David Suchet

    The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

    This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical
  • Ed Larkin and Jonny Amies in The Little Big Things.

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Little Big Things, David Tennant in Good and more

    Musicals, Shakespeare and multiple versions of Nick Payne’s multiverse drama Constellations are among May’s digital theatre highlights
  • Forbes Masson in Original Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde

    The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more

    Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small
  • Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby at Birmingham Hippodrome.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Peaky Blinders, Prima Facie and more

    Our roundup of what to watch at home includes Rambert’s prequel to the hit TV series, Jodie Comer reprising the legal drama and Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger
  • Free Your Mind, a large-scale immersive performance based on The Matrix created especially for the official opening of Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International. Directed by Danny Boyle, it features hip hop choreography by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and, a powerful score from composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante (co-founders of Boy Blue), eye-opening staging from world-leading designer Es Devlin, alongside words from acclaimed writer Sabrina Mahfouz. (Opening 18-10-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 10-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The best theatre to stream this month: Free Your Mind, Harry Clarke and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Danny Boyle’s remix of The Matrix, Billy Crudup’s solo show and the New Wolsey’s Romeo & Juliet
  • Hans Kesting, centre, as Richard III in Kings of War at the Barbican, London, in 2016.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more

    If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove
  • Dive straight in … Mike Birbiglia in The Old Man and the Pool

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

    Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes
  • A scene from Rice by Cloud Gate Theatre Of Taiwan @ Sadler's Wells, London. Directed by Lin Hwai-Min. (Opening 27-02-14) Tristram Kenton 02/14 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The best theatre to stream this month: Cloud Gate, Best of Enemies and more

    The Taiwanese group’s compelling dance and William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal’s heated debates are among November’s offerings – plus an interactive theatrical quest
  • Niamh Cusack stars in That Face.

    The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

    Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble
  • Michael Elcock leaps high in Hex at the National Theatre.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Rufus Norris’s barmy take on Sleeping Beauty, Ian McKellen unmasked and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes the warped fairytale Hex, Neil LaBute’s dark relationship comedy and a classic Gilbert & Sullivan romp
  • Enchanting … Zubin Varla (left) and Meow Meow (centre) in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe in 2016.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Doctor Who does Shakespeare, and a visit to the nit nurse

    Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama
  • Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Like Water for Chocolate.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Like Water for Chocolate, Heart and more

    Our roundup of the drama to enjoy at home in July includes a glorious adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel and Saoirse Ronan in The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Samira Wiley in Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

    Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time
  • Vivian Panka, Maddison Firth and Teleri Hughes in Heathers: The Musical.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Heathers, Alvin Ailey and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Panti Bliss’s drag journey, Athol Fugard’s ballroom dreamers and Alain Platel’s nightmarish dance-theatre
  • Emilia Clarke stars in The Seagull

    The best theatre to stream this month: Emilia Clarke in The Seagull and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes a Big Night of Musicals, You Bury Me and James Earl Jones in King Lear
  • Kishore Walker and Shane Convery in The Boys Are Kissing at Theatre503.

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Boys Are Kissing, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Hans Christian Andersen on skates, a verbatim play five years in the making and poems from Ukraine
  • Farshid Rokey, Shamail Ali, Houda Echouafni and Ahmad Sakhi in The Boy With Two Hearts.

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Boy With Two Hearts, Punchdrunk and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Billy Crystal’s musical about a fading comedian, a female Faustus and a revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate
  • Ayesha Dharker, Adjoa Andoh and Leila Farzad in Richard II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2019.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Richard II, All of Us and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, a festival of mime and a rock’n’roll panto
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