BBC Radio 1 's Big Weekend festival which was scheduled for before June 2020 was called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK .
On 13 March BBC Radio 1 announced that it would cancel its Big Weekend festival , scheduled to take place in Dundee over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May.  15 March , London 's Old Vic Theatre became the first West End theatre to cancel a performance when it ended its run of Samuel Beckett 's Endgame two weeks early.  On 16 March , other theatres in London , as well as elsewhere around the UK , closed following Boris Johnson 's advice that people should avoid such venues.