Recently I’ve seen a couple of forthcoming London shows – at somewhat opposite ends of the size scale – both do good, but very different, jobs of promoting their productions on social media. It can…
Google Street View? That’s nothing to do with the arts, surely? Well, yes and no. Celebrating its eighth birthday a week ago, the advent of Google Maps made it phenomenally easier to locate venues. Previous…
Earlier this week, Apple announced that its iTunes store had reached a milestone – the 25 billionth song downloaded from the service. It’s figures like that that help underline just how much digital delivery has…
I’ve long been a fan of the website Theatremonkey, which provides a comprehensive summary of seat quality – from legroom to the view of the stage – thus allowing audiencegoers to decide whether it’s worth…
We’ve all heard the exhortations at the start of shows saying that the use of cameras and video equipment is strictly prohibited. Such warnings used to apply to only a minority of us, but as…
Apple’s iOS store overflows with Shakespeare-related apps: which are the ones that stand out?
As the issue of squeezing end credits of TV programmes makes headlines again, is the internet finally picking up the baton of informing us of the creatives involved in each show?
Could Digital Theatre’s move into distribution, as well as content creation, make internet sales lucrative for smaller venues?
If you’re using November to start a writing project, what technology is out there to help?
As Radio 4 prepares to release more speech output from its archives, isn’t it a shame there isn’t more access to old plays?
Conjuring has gone digital, with a trio of magic apps available for the iPhone
Two new iPhone radio apps have been released in the past week – how do they compare, and what are the alternatives?
When Stuart Piper’s first regular Agent’s Take column for The Stage website went live on Wednesday, I thought it might provoke some response. And there was a little bit overnight – but when he linked…
I know that it’s something of a risk talking about website design – and the pitfalls of not thinking design through – a mere 24 hours after The Stage has launched the latest stage of…
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