The Habit of Art hits record high for captioned performances at the National Theatre

110 deaf and partially hearing people and their companions attended the captioned performance of Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art – making it the most popular captioned performance ever held at the National Theatre. Read More...

Subtitled cinema - future plans? Have your say!

The UK Film Council would like to hear YOUR VIEWS on cinema access, to help plan possible future funding schemes. This is an opportunity to let them know how important subtitled cinema is to people with hearing loss. Read More...

Legally Blonde, The Musical - a sparkling delight! Book now for the captioned performance!

Catchy songs, a great cast, and a storyline which has the brilliant message of positivity and love triumphing over all - Legally Blonde, The Musical has them all. Now running at London’s Savoy Theatre, there will a captioned performance on Saturday 10 April at 2.30pm. Read More...

Deafened actor in new ‘care home’ version of Shakespeare’s love story

What is it about love in old age? What family has not wrestled with the question of how we care for our parents as they become older and frailer? Who will love them? Who will support them? Who will pay for their care? And with that care, what controls should we apply? If we have taken power of attorney, what about the freedom to fall in love, to give gifts, to marry unwisely? Read More...

DIARY OF CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES, JANUARY 2010 - UPDATE

Unfortunately, we have had some problems sending the latest performance diary of captioned shows to you by email. If you would like to download the January 2010 edition, please read on ... Read More...

Interested in becoming a STAGETEXT Trustee?

STAGETEXT is always interested to hear from people who might be interested in becoming a STAGETEXT Trustee - people with strategic vision, independent judgement and a willingness to give time and commitment. Read More...

Access London Theatre - Winter 2010 brochure now available!

The Winter 2010 edition of Access London Theatre is now available, listing captioned, sign language interpreted and audio described performances taking place in London’s Theatreland between January and April 2010. The brochure also incorporates an Access Venue Guide with information for over 70 London theatres. Read More...

Find out about captioning on YouTube

If you’d like to know more about captioning and what deaf people think about it, you might like to watch the following three clips on YouTube: Read More...

Planning a trip to Scotland? Why not catch a captioned show?

If you live in Scotland, or are planning a visit there, why not catch a captioned show during your travels. Read More...

Free tickets for under 26s at Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre now has an allocation of free tickets for under 26s for their captioned performances as part of the Arts Council initiative, A Night Less Ordinary. Read More...

25 or under? Love captions? Royal Court offers free tickets

The Royal Court in London is offering a limited number of free tickets to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people aged 25 or under as part of an Arts Council scheme to attract younger audiences. These are available for all productions currently booking in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Read More...

If you enjoy captioned theatre, why not try out subtitled cinema?

The UK leads the world in 'accessible' cinema. Most major cinemas now have facilities to screen the latest films with subtitles for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people, and most popular films are available with subtitles. 'Accessible' shows are now a regular feature in hundreds of cinemas nationwide. Read More...

Read about what's happening in the world of captioning

STAGETEXT recently published its first newsletter, Wordplay, which is aimed at theatres and production companies that are interested in finding out what's happening on the captioning front and current developments. Read More...

Captioning in East Anglia launches with Ayckbourn comedy

A co-production between the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, marked the launch of captioning services in East Anglia. Alan Ayckbourn’s A Chorus of Disapproval was captioned at the New Wolsey on 25 February and at the Mercury Theatre on 17 March. Along with the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, they are the latest three venues to join the See a Voice project and share captioning equipment and local captioners. Read More...

STAGETEXT captions 1,000th performance at National Theatre

STAGETEXT captioned its 1,000th performance – the National Theatre’s production of Gethsemane by David Hare – in December, marking a huge increase in captioned shows at the venue and on tour in 2008. Read More...

Leicester’s Curve kicks off first season with five captioned shows

Leicester’s new state-of-the-art venue, Curve, opened its first season in December with a captioned performance of its Christmas show. Three further productions are planned this season as well as a captioned performance of the Donmar Warehouse and Theatre of Scotland's touring production, Be Near Me. Read More...

Sharing the captioning experience

STAGETEXT’s first encounter with Shared Experience was in 2003 when we captioned their highly acclaimed production of After Mrs Rochester at the Lyric Hammersmith. Since then a fruitful working relationship has developed, with captioned performances on tour in productions such as Gone to Earth, Madame Bovary, A Passage to India, Bronte, Jane Eyre, Orestes, Kindertransport, War and Peace, and their most recent production Mine. Read More...

Calling all captioned theatre lovers in Derbyshire!

Last year, deaf, deafened and hard of hearing theatregoers from the Chesterfield/Derbyshire formed ACT (Accessing Captioned Theatre), a group which organises trips to captioned shows. ACT was borne out of the Sheffield Captioned Support Group which had been running for several years, but as many of the newer members were from Chesterfield it seemed sensible to have two groups. Read More...

Why caption in-house?

More and more theatres are realising the benefits of purchasing their own captioning equipment and training in-house captioners. Laura Wood, Programme Manager at Bradford Alhambra, explains how they went about it and the benefits to the theatre and local deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences. Read More...

Newcastle theatres launch captioning service

The Theatre Royal, Northern Stage and Live Theatre in Newcastle have joined forces as part of the See a Voice project to offer regular captioned performances. Read More...