We’ll be adding continuously to this round-up of the fantastic initiatives springing up across the creative industries to help us be very well entertained culture potatoes indeed.

Further to the below, The Guardian has produced an excellent list of some of the most interesting, provocative and zeitgeist online cultural offerings: Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online.

Theatre and Performance

Unprecedented

Theatre company Headlong has created a series of plays - written by a diverse range of celebrated playwrights and performed by over 50 of the UK’s finest actors - reflecting on life in lockdown. All the plays are available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

Spymonkey

The hilarious and anarchic physical comedy company Spymonkey are screening one of their shows for free every week through Vimeo. If you need some light relief from lockdown, try this!

Shakespeare's Globe

The Globe have free streams of their shows, each available for a fortnight, on their YouTube channel. They also have a huge selection of performances to rent from their Globe Player platform.

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House YouTube channel has a wealth of full ballet and opera performances to watch as part of their #OurHouseToYourHouse series, with a new show added every Friday.

National Theatre at Home

The National Theatre will be screening some of their most popular NT Live performances for free on YouTube, with a new production added every Thursday.

The Social Distancing Festival

Artists from around the world are livestreaming events and showcasing their work at the Social Distancing Festival, a collection of performance, visual arts, music and more.

21 Chump Street

Perfect for Hamilton fans, this mini musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda is "a small nugget of gold" (What'sOnStage.com) and is available to watch on YouTube.

Cultural Digital

A new crowd-sourced website with a huge list of performances to watch at home.

Art, Museums and Heritage

Faces of Frida

Check out Google Arts & Culture's Faces of Frida project, exploring the work of artist Frida Kahlo through online exhibitions, a digital tour of her studio and excerpts from her personal letters and diaries.

BFI Player

Explore the fantastic BFI Player free archive section. See shorts and features, showing the best from the BFI, plus national and regional film archives - covering 120 years of Britain on screen.

The Great Women Artists Podcast

This podcast is presented by art historian and curator, Katy Hessel. Listen to interviews with artists on their career - or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them.

Art UK

Enjoy great art and learn more about the works and artists with Art UK's fantastic Instagram feed.

Tate Galleries

As well as huge online catalogue of images, the fantastic Tate website presents online-only live art and performance, podcasts and how-to guides to help you get creative at home.

FORMAT International Photography Festival: Mass Isolation

FORMAT's Mass Isolation Project invites people around the world to share their experience of the pandemic through photos, videos, drawings, memes and more, inspired by the Mass Observation project directives of the past.

British Museum Virtual Tour

Visit the world-famous museum without leaving your sofa, thanks to this virtual tour presented together with Google Arts & Culture. Other museums and galleries offering a virtual tour include the Guggenheim in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Paris' Musee d'Orsay

Music

The Glastonbury Experience

The world-famous music festival will return in 2021, but to tide you over until then, the BBC is celebrating Glastonbury's 50th anniversary with hours of classic performances and footage on TV, radio and online.

RSNO Friday Night Club

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is running a Friday Night Club, streaming never-before-seen concert footage via their Facebook page and YouTube channel. Concerts from previous weeks (including Beethoven’s Eroica, Saint-Saën’s Organ Symphony and Brahms German Requiem) can also be viewed on demand.

Royal Albert Home

The Royal Albert Hall is streaming a series of performances by artists from their own homes - including acts such as the Kaiser Chiefs, Imogen Heap and Tim Burgess. You can also watch past performances in their archive.

Tom Service Blogs

For an introduction to contemporary classical music, read Tom Service's series of blogs for the Guardian, complete with YouTube links to concerts and performances.

Bachtrack

Classical music website Bachtrack.com has loads of concerts and operas to watch, performed by leading companies from around the world.

Berliner Philharmoniker

The orchestra have made their Digital Concert Hall free to everyone, giving access to a huge archive of concerts, interviews and short films.

Manchester Collective: Live From Isolation

The musicians of the Manchester Collective are producing a series of live online events across several platforms, bringing the best music and special insight from those making it straight to your home.