Covid-19’s impact on the arts world has led to countless films and concerts being scrapped or postponed and theatres and galleries closed. Here’s an updating list of what’s affected so far Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLatest• Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in
London closes until further notice. • Noel Gallagher postpones Manchester shows (24-25 March), new dates TBA.• Glastonbury festival, which would have taken place 25-28 June, has been cancelled.• The Eurovision Song Contest, due to take place in Rotterdam on 16 May, will not take place this year. • Opera North suspends all performances and public-facing activity until the end of April.• July’s Buxton International festival is cancelled. • Brighton Festival is cancelled for the first time in its 53-year history. • Olivier awards (5 April) cancelled.• Design Museum in London to close from 18 March. • The Edinburgh international film festival, due to start on 17 June, won’t now go ahead. Organisers are “are looking at which elements of the festival can be delivered later in the year”.• Filming on all
BBC Studios’ soaps - Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, Holby City, Pobol y Cwm and River City – cancelled until further notice. EastEnders will now be broadcast two nights a week.• English Heritage closes all its staffed sites including Stonehenge.• Norfolk & Norwich festival (8-24 May) cancelled.• The National Trust announces all its pay-for-entry properties will close to visitors by Friday 20 March.• The
British Museum is to close from 18 March. No re-opening date has yet been given.• National Gallery, London, will close from 19 March, aiming to reopen on 4 May.• London’s National Portrait Gallery closed until further notice.• Photo London, due to take place at Somerset House 14–17 May, postponed to early autumn. • Tron theatre, Glasgow, closed until further notice.• Peer Gallery, London, closes until further notice; digital platforms stay open.• Release of Disney/Marvel superhero film Black Widow (1 May) postponed.• London’s O2 Arena, the second-largest concert venue in the UK, is postponing all events in March.• London’s Southbank Centre closes including the Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall and
Queen Elizabeth Hall. • Hepworth Wakefield closes until further notice. • Glasgow International festival (24 April-10 May) postponed. • Pitchfork festival
Berlin (8-9 May) cancelled.• Royal Albert Hall in London closed until further notice.• Teenage Cancer Trust gigs postponed, new dates TBA.• Tate announces that its four galleries – Tate Modern and Tate
Britain in London, Tate
Liverpool and Tate St Ives – will close at 6pm on 17 March and reopen on 1 May. • Serpentine Gallery in London closes until further notice. • Barbican Centre in London – an arts complex including theatre, concert hall and gallery – closes until further notice. • Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge closes until further notice. • Cheltenham Jazz Festival is cancelled. It will now take place on 28 April-3 May 2021. • All major West End and
UK theatres to close and remain closed until further notice. • Sadler’s Wells cancels all performances with immediate effect for up to 12 weeks.• The Royal Opera House, London has been closed to the public and all performances cancelled with immediate effect.• The Coliseum, home to English National Opera, has closed until further notice.• London’s Wigmore Hall has closed until Tuesday 14 April.• Camden Arts Centre, London, closes galleries, cafe, garden, bookshop and studios, reopening date TBA.• Watford Palace Theatre cancels Talking Heads and postpones Abigail’s Party until 2021.• Royal Court theatre cancels Shoe Lady and upcoming productions• Fabric and Ministry of Sound nightclubs in London have closed until further notice.• Elton John postpones North
American tour dates (26 March to 2 May), new dates TBA.• Foo Fighters postpone North American tour dates (12-20 April), new dates TBA.• Strand bookstore in
New York closed until further notice.• Oxford Literary festival, due to run 27 March-5 April, cancelled.•
Sydney Writers festival, due to run 27 April-3 May, cancelled.• The ICA in London closes its whole building, including galleries, cinemas and restaurant, for the foreseeable future. • Royal Academy in London stays open but cancels its Festival of Ideas, due to have taken place 29 April-3 May. • London Original Print Fair, due to take place 1-3 May, cancelled. • The International Opera Awards, due to take place in London on 4 May, have been postponed until 21 September.• BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ film festival, due to start on 18 March, is cancelled• National Gallery in London announces that its exhibition on the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi is postponed• Stoke Newington Literary festival, due to run 5-7 June, has been cancelled.• Wellcome Collection in London announces it will close from 6pm 16 March. • Photographers Gallery in London reduces its opening hours from 11am to 5pm with staggered entry to reduce the risk of infection. • Endgame at the Old Vic theatre cancels last two weeks of its run.• Arcola theatre suspends all public performances until further notice.• South London Gallery closes at 6pm on 14 March and announces that it will not reopen until further notice – the first British publicly funded art gallery to take this step.