BBC Arts announces new Sunday Night Performances every week

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BBC Arts has announced a major new commitment to broadcasting performance art, with a dedicated Sunday evening slot.

From April, BBC Four will feature a ‘Sunday Night Performance’ each week, showcasing some of the best of the UK’s dance, theatre, music and spoken word in specially made films.

Included in these films will be Prisoner C33, a new one-man play about Oscar Wilde starring Toby Stephens and written by Stuart Patterson, and Birmingham Rep’s production of Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play What I Wrote, starring Tom Hiddleston. Also featured will be Nitin Sawhney's Coventry-based Ghosts in the Ruins, and the dark comedy Isla from Theatr Clwyd and playwright Tim Price.

There will also be four shows from Shakespeare’s Globe’s 25-year history, as well as The RSC’s new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which is set in an imagined futuristic world.

This is great news, Besties! Will you be tuning in?