Digital Theatre, a company which makes filmed theatre productions available for download, will screen some of its recordings in cinemas around the UK in partnership with film producers CinemaLive. The first series of screenings will take place in September 2013.
Titles are yet to be announced but will initially focus on commercial West End productions some of which will be newly recorded and some drawn from Digital Theatre's archive which includes shows like Much Ado about Nothing starring David Tennat and Catherine Tate and David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker in Arthur Miller's modern American classic All my Sons.
Digital Theatre, founded in 2009 by Robert Delamere and Tom Shaw, now hosts productions from the UK's largest classical and modern repertory theatres including the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and the Almeida. It has launched an ipad app and hosts the Routledge Performance Archive of audio-visual material.
UK Theatre has had an increasingly regular presence in cinemas since the launch of National Theatre Live in 2009. NT Live will broadcast its first West End production The Audience starring Helen Mirren in June 2013.
Graham McLaren's productionn of Great Expectations demonstrated the commercial potential of the theatre-cinema link by taking £80,000 at the box office for its live-broadcast around the UK of its opening night. The Digital Theatre and CinemaLive will give audiences a chance to catch up on past theatrical productions they may have missed.
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