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August 2023

  • 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
    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

May 2023

  • Stephen Flavall, AKA Jorbs.

    ‘Everyone encounters some kind of abuse’: Stephen ‘Jorbs’ Flavall speaks out on the dark side of Twitch streaming

    In his new memoir, Before We Go Live, the Twitch and YouTube star pulls back the curtain on the world of pro game streaming – and details some of the toxic behaviour he says he has witnessed

November 2022

  • Age of Rage, directed by Ivo van Hove.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Age of Rage, A Scary Little Tempest and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Ivo van Hove’s epic, boisterous family fun and a dance fable for Christmas

September 2022

  • Salt for Svanetia … Bolshevik industry on the march.

    Salt for Svanetia review – poetic, dreamlike Soviet documentary of forgotten world

    Mikhail Kalatozov’s 1930s film gives a fascinating account of a medieval-style society about the supposed blessings of the USSR’s modernising impact

June 2022

  • dashcam r4 gfx on 8.1.3.T copy

    Dashcam review – Rob Savage takes us for a hell of a ride

  • Pandemic-themed shock schlock … Annie Hardy plays Annie Hardy.

    Dashcam review – Maga-loving social media monster leads pandemic horror

February 2022

  • The voice actors in Critical Role's Campaign 3

    Runner-up: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2022 – Laura de Lisle on Critical Role, Campaign 2, Episode 141

  • An Aeroflot plane makes its final approach to Heathrow

    Big Jet TV: livestreaming of planes landing during Storm Eunice goes viral

July 2021

  • Phil Spencer of Microsoft.

    Phil Spencer on the future of Xbox: we still want to take risks with games

    While developing traditional narrative games is harder than it has ever been, Microsoft’s Xbox chief sees an opportunity in using modern platforms and tech to tell new stories

June 2021

  • Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me.

    Lockdown culture
    Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

    From live streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon

May 2021

  • the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective rehearse at Wigmore Hall for a summer concert in 2020.

    Sexual congress, cigarettes and David Bowie: the Wigmore Hall’s hidden history

  • Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper in a performance of Phèdre, which was made available on the National Theatre at Home service.

    Streaming should be the future for theatre

April 2021

  • Clockwatching... Grange Park Opera’s production of Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole

    Lockdown culture
    Classical highlights: concerts and opera to watch in April

    From Bach passions aplenty to premieres, rarities and fresh takes on old favourites – our pick of this month’s streamed music

March 2021

  • ‘We wanted to capture that feeling of the emergence of hope of the summer ahead’ ... (L-R) Este Haim, Chris Martin, Michael Kiwanuka.

    Culture in peril
    Glastonbury live-stream festival: Coldplay, Michael Kiwanuka and Haim to perform

  • Eilish Gilligan, Hannah Blackburn and Julia Jacklin performing at the first Isolaid concert, which was streamed 22 and 23 March 2020.

    Australian arts in focus
    Isolaid festival turns one: what’s next for Australia’s favourite pandemic pivot?

  • Black Girl Gamers - Wellness Week

    15 video game streamers your teens should be watching

  • Magdalena Kožená and Simon Rattle.

    Lockdown culture
    Bavarian Radio SO/Rattle review – future team put new music front and centre

February 2021

  • Rhian Lois as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Scottish Opera 2020

    Lockdown culture
    Classical highlights: concerts and opera to watch in March

    From witches to Weber, and Andriessen to Zimmermann – our pick of this month’s streamed music
  • Enter the clowns … Redemption Room.

    Lockdown culture
    Redemption Room review – fear is the winner in scary celebrity gameshow

    Disgraced stars must plead for the audience’s forgiveness – or suffer a nasty fate – in a show that prizes horror over interaction, yet delivers a satisfying adrenaline high
  • Leading the way … the livestreamed Christmas Carol at The Old Vic.

    Lockdown culture
    Hello Las Vegas! How livestreaming is transforming the stage

    It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained – and could it turn out to be a new existential threat?
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