Digital Theatre is a company that provides digital platforms for the arts. Founded by Robert Delamere and Tom Shaw and launched in London in 2009, the company produces and licenses high-definition films of stage productions that can be streamed on demand for both consumer and educational purposes.
In 2011, Digital Theatre's flagship digital educational platform Digital Theatre+ was launched, providing institutions around the world with access to productions and educational resources to support the teaching of English and Drama.
Digital Theatre was acquired by ScaleUp Capital (formerly Root Capital LLP) in 2015. In 2019, former head of BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds Neelay Patel was appointed CEO.
Partners Digital Theatre partners with a number of major theatre companies to produce and license productions for the platform. Partners include Sonia Friedman Productions, Almeida Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Opera House, English Touring Theatre, Eclipse, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic and Frantic Assembly.
Original productions As well as licensing productions from partner companies, Digital Theatre also produces original live captures of stage productions in the UK.
Year Production Playwright Director Company Theatre Ref. 2009 Over There Mark Ravenhill Mark Ravenhill and Ramin Gray Royal Court Theatre Royal Court Theatre 2009 The Container Clare Bayley Tom Wright Young Vic 2009 The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Paul Hunter Royal Shakespeare Company and Told by an Idiot Clapham Community Project 2009 Far from the Madding Crowd Adapted by Mark Healey Kate Saxon English Touring Theatre Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 2010 Kafka's Monkey Adapted by Colin Teevan Walter Meierjohann Young Vic 2010 Parlour Song Jez Butterworth Ian Rickson Almeida Theatre Almeida Theatre 2011 All My Sons Arthur Miller Howard Davies Apollo Theatre 2011 As You Like It William Shakespeare Michael Boyd Royal Shakespeare Company The Courtyard Theatre 2011 Billy The Kid Michael Morpurgo Tony Graham Unicorn Theatre 2011 Into The Woods Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Timothy Sheader Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2011 Lovesong Abi Morgan Scott Graham Frantic Assembly Lyric Hammersmith 2011 Macbeth William Shakespeare Gemma Bodinetz Everyman Theatre, Liverpool 2011 Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare Josie Rourke Sonia Friedman Productions Wyndham's Theatre 2012 King Lear William Shakespeare Michael Attenborough Almeida Theatre Almeida Theatre 2012 Long Day’s Journey Into Night Eugene O’Neill Anthony Page Apollo Theatre 2013 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen Carrie Cracknell Young Vic 2013 Beautiful Thing Jonathan Harvey Nikolai Foster Arts Theatre 2013 Private Lives Noël Coward Jonathan Kent Gielgud Theatre 2014 Ghosts Henrik Ibsen Richard Eyre Almeida Theatre Almeida Theatre 2014 The Crucible Arthur Miller Yaël Farber The Old Vic 2011 True West Sam Shepard Phillip Breen Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) 2015 Henry V Joe Talbot WillShake 2016 Iphigenia In Splott Gary Owen Rachel O'Riordan Sherman Theatre 2017 Casanova Kenneth Tindall Northern Ballet Palace Theatre 2017 Funny Girl Jule Styne, Isobel Lennart and Bob Merrill Michael Mayer Sonia Friedman Productions Palace Theatre 2018 Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Alessandro Talevi Opera North Grand Theatre and Opera House 2018 Othello William Shakespeare Richard Twyman English Touring Theatre Warwick Arts Centre 2018 Things I Know to Be True Andrew Bovell Scott Graham Frantic Assembly Lyric Hammersmith 2019 Negative Space Mole Wetherell Reckless Sleepers New Adelphi Theatre 2020 15 Heroines Cat Robey, Tom Littler and Adjoa Andoh Jermyn Street Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Result Ref. 2017 Theatre & Technology Awards Best Online/Live Streaming Platform 2018 Webby Awards Best Streaming Platform 2018 DigitalAgenda Impact Awards Education Award 2018 Tech for Teachers Best Arts Resource 2019 Theatre & Technology Awards Best Online/Live Streaming Platform 2021 Bett Awards Company of the Year (less than £3m turnover)
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