Love Never Dies, Les Misérables, Cats and more to be broadcast over festive period

It’s Christmas week! And for many, getting out to the theatre isn’t as easy as it could be, so watching some stagey treats on the small screen is an easy alternative.

After scouring through What’s on TV (the magazine, no relation), we’ve assembled an array of live stage broadcasts or theatre-adjacent shows/films coming over entire festive period.

Some hot tips include Strange Journey, the documentary about the making of the Rocky Horror Show, as well as the Tea with Judi Dench on 22 December.

We’ve already given a comprehensive run-down of the BBC’s festive offerings this year, including the Barbican production of Kiss Me, Kate.

On Sky Arts:

22 December – Tea with Judi Dench – 9pm
22 December – Blithe Spirit – 10pm
22 December – Billy Elliot – 11.55pm

Christmas Eve – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – 8.30am
Christmas Eve – Nutcracker: Backstage with English National Ballet – 12:15pm
Christmas Eve – The Nutcracker – 2.15pm
Christmas Eve – Strange Journey: The Rocky Horror Picture Show – 10pm
Christmas Day – Jesus Christ Superstar – 8.40am

Boxing Day – South Pacific (film) – 7.50am

27 December – Cinderella (film) – 6.00am
27 December – Julie Andrews Forever – 7.30am
27 December – The Sound of Music – Live! – 8.30am
27 December – The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall – 3.10pm
27 December – Love Never Dies – 6pm

28 December – Tea with Judi Dench – 10.10pm

29 December – Les Misérables: The Staged Concert – 1.10pm
29 December – Classic FM Live: 25th Anniversary Concert – 9pm

31 December – My Fair Lady (film) – 8.45am

1 January – 42nd Street – 7.40am
1 January – The Sound of Music – Live! – 7pm

2 January – Wuthering Heights – 8.50am

4 January – Cats: the Musical – 11.40am