ROLES WE’LL NEVER PLAY (Apollo Theatre/Stream Theatre)****

 

By Louise

Link: https://www.stream.theatre/season/23

Available until: Livestream 17^th January 7pm.

Roles We’ll Never Play was filmed in December under socially distant conditions and I was very excited when I found out it was going to be livestreamed on Stream Theatre. Stream Theatre is such a great site and as lockdown has continued, its productions have become more and more varied. It is also great that they are bringing back not just shows which they have done before but also offering a platform for successful plays which were streamed somewhere else first time around. I am really looking forward to seeing The Pirates of Penzance and Southwark Playhouse’s The Poltergeist again because I loved them the first time and I think Little Wars is one of those plays that could be even better the second time.

ALL MY SONS (Apollo Theatre/Digital Theatre)*****

 

By Cal

Link: All My Sons | Stanhope Productions | Digital Theatre Rent for £7.99 or subscribe to Digital Theatre for £9.99 a month.

Available until: Unknown

It would have been more fitting to review a lockdown production on the day it was announced that London was entering Tier 3 and the theatres would close, but I’d already started watching this one. But Louise is reviewing the Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol, someone will be reviewing Red Bull Theatre’s A King and No King and we have bought a lot of tickets for livestream productions over the next few weeks.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT: A SPOTLIGHT ON CHRISTMAS (Theatre Café/Apollo Theatre)****

By Megan

Link: https://www.thetheatrecafe.co.uk/livestreams/out-of-the-spotlight-into-the-darkness-episode-3

Available until:

This is the last concert in the Out of the Darkness Into the Spotlight series but it was a really lovely and happy concert to end on. Hiba Elchikhe and Sejal Keshwala have organised a really brilliant and interesting series of concerts with so many singers I was really excited to watch.

Lots of musical theatre stars joined together to sing Christmas songs and there were even some Christmas poems! I feel even more excited about Christmas too even though I still feel a little bit sad because not everyone can enjoy Christmas in the way they want to. I am very lucky in lots of ways but my cousin is nearly seven months old and I haven’t met her yet. But that’s something I can look forward to in 2021.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT: A SPOTLIGHT ON MUSICAL THEATRE (Apollo Theatre/Theatre Café)****

By Louise

Link: https://www.thetheatrecafe.co.uk/livestreams/out-of-the-spotlight-into-the-darkness-episode-2/

Available until: It says N/A

The second episode in this really enjoyable series features fourteen singers. They each sing a solo song and two of them sing a duet together as well. They sing songs from fifteen different musicals, ranging from Guys and Dolls which was first produced in 1950, to A Star is Born, a film musical which was released in 2018. Every decade apart from the 1980s is represented but I think the music from the 1980s often isn’t appreciated nowadays.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT: A SPOTLIGHT ON ‘JAMIE’ (Apollo Theatre/Theatre Café)****

 

By Imogen

Link: https://www.thetheatrecafe.co.uk/livestreams/out-of-the-spotlight-into-the-darkness-episode-1 £9 for single episode or £25 for the complete 3 episode series

Available until: The Theatre Café website says N/A.

The Theatre Café have been one of the most active venues through this annoying lockdown business. They started off by streaming concerts from performers’ homes and more recently they’ve actually been letting the performers into the café. The Apollo Theatre is one of the theatres that have really tried to get up and running again. The Government messed all that up but even though the Apollo can’t let audiences in they can’t stop the performers. Some of this show is filmed at the Apollo and some is at the Theatre Café.