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Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away & Updated Classics On Screen

This weekend the highly-anticipated (and controversial) film version of Dear Evan Hansen comes to US movie theatres, starring Ben Platt as Evan, the role he originated on Broadway and won a Tony Award for. (UK release 22 October) Or at home you can catch more top shows like Come From Away, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, or some exciting updated classics, including a high-energy livestream production from Shakespeare's Globe in London on the 25th or September. Check out this week's picks below.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to finally fit in.  Both deeply personal and profoundly contemporary, Dear Evan Hansen is about life and the way we live it. 

Come From Away - Musical, Filmed Performance

Filmed live on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on September 11, 2001. As the locals host these "come from aways," they come together and find hope.

This re-imagined fairy-tale musical version of Cinderella features Camilla Cabello in the title role and features incredible musical talent across the cast: Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, James Corden and more.

Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Musical, Filmed Performance

Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, is the heart-warming tale of a teenager who overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Play, Livestream

Catch a thrilling, truly live performance streamed from Shakespeare's Globe in London on Saturday the 25th of September, as their raucous production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns with piñatas, streamers, glitter and a cacophony of brass.

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Stream Everybody's Talking About Jamie And More

This weekend stream Everybody's Talking About Jamie, science-fiction operas, a kid-friendly play, a classical concert and more. 

Rune is a vast cosmological fantasy featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, contemporary dance with interactive sculpture, and high fashion by Ka Wa Key. On a planet where history is forbidden, a young girl dares to tell her story. A voyage across galaxies and millennia, hers is a tale of the archipelagos of Khye-rell and their matterwork, through transdimensional canals and sealanes to the Rune of the universe’s origin. This song, her story — through the very act of being told — will have consequences beyond imagining…


We build an hour, a day, a lifetime on what we can remember. So what do we become, when we forget?  Benoit Swan Pouffer’s new piece for Rambert2 is an unexpected and poignant journey through our mind, memory and sense of self.

The Castle Of Crossed Destinies - Opera, Filmed Performance

The Castle of Crossed Destinies, namely the world being read backwards.  Spanning the Baroque era to the distant future, and combining animation with live performance, this adaptation of Calvino’s novel shows us knights in Times Square, legendary alchemists, and invisible kings. Using symbolic imagery, tarot cards, and music which travels through the centuries by tailoring old musical forms to a new compositional language, this opera immerses the audience in a unique sung history where everything is connected, perhaps even the destiny of the audience itself.

Naomi and her cat Tom are best friends. They love nothing more than sitting on the sofa together watching TV after a long day. But one afternoon, Naomi comes home to find Tom is nowhere to be seen! Realising her best friend may be in danger, she must set out to find him. In a journey that takes her to the dry desert, the icy arctic and even under the sea, will she be able to find Tom and bring him home?

Sibelius’s Sixth and Seventh Symphonies - Concert, Filmed Performance

In this film from 2015 recorded at London’s Barbican Hall, Rattle leads the orchestra in Sibelius’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies.

Stream Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream For Free

This weekend stream Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a hard-hitting play Bodies for free! You can also check out a queer love story, a remarkable musical, a classical concert and a murder mystery. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Play, Filmed Performance

While preparations are underway for the marriage of Athenian duke Theseus and Amazon queen Hippolyta, fairy king Oberon and his tricky jester, Puck, make mischief with the indiscriminate use of a powerful love potion. Lysander and Demetrius both fall for Helena, raising the jealousy of Hermia, whose father is pressuring her to marry Demetrius despite Lysander's love for her.


Selected Recordings of Us - Play, Livestream

They promised they would never forget each other, no matter what. Then they broke up. As the remnants of their relationship gradually crowds the stage, two characters grasp at the fragments of their memories to come up with a shared version of their story. But can they agree on a single script?

In the Gin & Sin murder mystery the founder of the Mystery Gin Company has gone missing. He’s heading off on the adventure of a lifetime but before he goes he’s got an unwelcome surprise for his daughter and son-in-law.  Just what is Tom up to? What lies in store for his relatives and what happens next? There will be a murder but the victim might not be who you think! Everything will be revealed at the gin tasting night.

Angela's Ashes: The Musical - Musical, Filmed Performance

Angela’s Ashes: The Musical follows Frank McCourt’s escapades and experiences in a Dickensian landscape peopled by a drunken father, a helpless mother, pompous priests, and bullying schoolmasters; culminating in his escape from grinding poverty to the redemption of a new life in America.

When one in two people are likely to get cancer over their lifetime, knowing what to do and how to deal with it becomes all the more important.  Bodies is an experimental, multi-media show that combines tragedy with comedy, weaving ancient and contemporary stories about dilemmas of the body, mind and people's experiences with cancer.

Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 - Concert, Filmed Performance

In this performance from 1973 filmed in Vienna’s Musikverein, Bernstein leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with soprano soloist Edith Mathis.

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