Theatres streaming Shakespeare & early modern drama
- Royal Shakespeare Company (free trial) https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/watch-rsc-shows-from-home and (free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQAr5le0UU&feature=youtu.be
- American Shakespeare Center – Blkfrs TV (ticketed) https://americanshakespearecenter.com/seasons/blkfrs-tv
- Metropolitan Opera (free streams, free trial) https://www.metopera.org https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams
- Royal Opera House – Royal Opera & Royal Ballet (ticketed) https://stream.roh.org.uk
- National Theatre – National Theatre at Home (subscription or rental) https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home and NT Collection (free to school students) https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/learning/national-theatre-collection
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (ticketed) https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/watch and (some free) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwN-jwNNNQN-8sfKG-qg8uA
- Folger Shakespeare Theatre (free) https://www.folger.edu/video-macbeth-folger-theatre and audio recordings (free) https://shakespeare.folger.edu/listen
- Theater Der Stadt (ticketed) sometimes streams Shakespeare https://www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de/en
- The Schaubühne (ticketed) occasionally does Shakespeare, for example: https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/seiten/online-spielplan.html
- Theater Dortmund (free) Hamlet is still up, here (needs a free Vimeo account) https://vimeo.com/117466229
- Deutsches Theater Berlin Zoom in : Romeo + Julia (free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIzmP0MLlE&list=PLfKLZ395LSwGLA-YBNNb8g2zkATsDgVJ5
- Stratford Festival https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AtHome (ticketed)
- Red Bull Theater – various early modern theatre (ticketed) www.redbulltheater.com/live
- Forced Entertainment – Tabletop Shakespeare (ticketed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4EipblJBc
Other live & recorded streaming shows and performances
- Barn Theatre’s Henry V – LIVE! (free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynSpVRu_8kE&list=PLZNnxQWHbO9JcgCeUteBsCZb0KhAvOceb&index=15&t=0s
- Rob Myles’ interactive The Show Must Go Online (free) https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline
- Sir Patrick Stewart’s “A Sonnet A Day” (free) https://twitter.com/SirPatStew
- Rude Grooms & Seven Stages Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare Happy Hours (free) https://www.youtube.com/c/ShakespeareHappyHours
- Hidden Room Theater’s Der Bestrafte Brudermord (puppet Hamlet) (free) https://vimeo.com/showcase/6953699
- PBS Great Performances (free, some US only) https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf
- Sofa Shakespeare (free) https://sofashakespeare.com
- Guildford Theatre Company (free) – performances, podcasts and live talks https://www.guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk/athomewithgsc
- Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths (rent or purchase) https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecompletedeaths
- Ninateka — Grzegorz Jarzyna’s Macbeth, and Jan Klata’s Hamlet (free) (Polish, with English subtitles) https://ninateka.pl/film/h-spektakl-teatr
- Marquee TV — Shakespeare plays, Alexander Ekman’s ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream (free trial) https://www.marquee.tv/series/ekman
- Lantern Theatre Company – play and sonnet readings (free) https://www.lanterntheater.org/lantern-anywhere/#shakespeare-now
- Lord Denney’s Players’ Much Ado About Nothing (free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiRiKJWxDw
- Delaware Shakespeare’s “Sonnet of the Day” (free) https://www.facebook.com/delshakes
- Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s Decameron Project (free) https://tnshakespeare.org/decameron
- Judi Dench, Adjoa Andoh et al read excerpts (free) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-52410543/shakespeare-day-2020-dame-judi-dench-reads-from-richard-ii
- Shakespeare Republic’s #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) (free) http://allthewebsastage.com
- The Wet Mariners – A Midsummer Night’s Stream (free) (video still up) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_zOEW0sc0&feature=youtu.be
- ETA Hoffmann Theater – William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Deutsch von Sebastian Schug) (free) (video still up) (German, no subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrOzLDyCNr8&feature=youtu.be
- Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespeare Allowed! On Zoom” – monthly live public play readings (free) https://www.nashvilleshakes.org/shakespeare-allowed
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival – audio productions form the archives (free) https://osfashland.uscreen.io/categories/full-audio-productions
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival – “Play On!” Shakespeare monologues (free) https://asf.net/favoriteactors
- Colorado Shakespeare Festival – “Intro to Shakespeare” https://cupresents.org/digital/5-4-20/intro-to-shakespeare-for-1st-graders (free) and “The (Sometimes Silly, Sometimes Sad) Tale of Prince Hamlet” https://cupresents.org/digital/5-28-20/the-sometimes-silly-sometimes-sad-tale-of-prince-hamlet (free)
- Illinois Shakespeare Festival – “Take Time To Pause” performance shorts and character interviews (free) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5YffjLPoQzH6TjzOqOEz3MSNPMEV3xwx
- University of Colorado Boulder College of Music – Scenes from Béatrice et Bénédict (free) https://cupresents.org/digital/4-23-20/scenes-from-beatrice-et-benedict
- Commonwealth Shakespeare Company – Hamlet in VR (free) https://commshakes.org/production/hamlet-360-thy-fathers-spirit
- Ohio State English – Much Ado About Nothing (free) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTWR3jkrY5W61hR1C1p2oAg
- Conrad Askland’s Romeo and Juliet, the Musical (free)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCt6WrCFCM
- Shakespeare Theatre Company’s All the Devils Are Here (ticketed) https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/all-the-devils-are-here-how-shakespeare-invented-the-villain
Other festivals/conferences with streaming:
Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, every August-September, archival material here (free) (English site toggle at page bottom) https://www.vod.teatrszekspirowski.pl/strona-glowna
Other sites and collected learning resources
- World online exhibits https://artsandculture.google.com/search/exhibit?q=shakespeare
- Before Shakespeare‘s “Pass Ye Remote: A Quest for Early Modern Entertainment Through Online Learning Resources” https://tinyurl.com/b4shakes
- Beyond Shakespeare – early modern plays read through https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ/videos
- Touchstone, a Shakespeare-related, UK-wide database of (onsite) productions http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance.html
- Shakespeare Association of America’s guide to online performances and events https://shakespeareassociation.org/resources/online-events
- Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s “The Good, the Bard & the Ugly”, a weekly podcast guide to Shakespeare-at-home (free) https://cincyshakes.com/podcast
- Not Another Shakespeare Podcast! (free) https://anchor.fm/nashaxpodcast
- Women and Shakespeare podcast (free) http://www.womenandshakespeare.com
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