Purpose The live streaming of theatrical performances to cinemas has become increasingly
common in recent years. The practice offers potentially positive returns for audience reach …

Over the past decade we have seen the rise of live-to-cinema performing arts broadcasts, as
well as detailed research into the kinds of experiences they create for their audiences. Less …

What is theater, if not the experience of “being there?” Of sharing the same space as the
actors, of merging oneself into an audience, of enacting the rights of ritual? Such …

When I attended the National Theatre (NT) Live screening of Present Laughter on 28
November 2019 at Rich Mix Cinema London, there was a lot of waiting involved. Before the …

Among the ghosts of Stratford-upon-Avon are those of the long-gone players who still flicker
before us as moving images. The most venerable of such spectres hail from 1910, haunting …

In the introduction to his landmark text Liveness, Philip Auslander references a banner
outside Atlanta's Alliance Theatre reading “Not Available on Video” as emblematic of …

This article explores the tension between the announced transparency and the actual
intermediality in the live broadcasts of Shakespeare stage productions by the Royal National …

The live theatre broadcast has witnessed a phenomenal rise in both popularity and profile
over the past decade. This article considers the live theatre broadcast as both a new …

This Element investigates the framing'texts' of Shakespeare's works in live theatre
broadcasts produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite growing engagement …

This article develops an analysis of the relationship between paratextual framing and
institutional identity in the body of productions broadcast to cinemas by RSC Live and NT …