Chesterfield group branches out

Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing theatregoers in Chesterfield are set to raise awareness of captioned shows in the area as Accessing Captioned Theatre, ACT (Derbyshire), gets off the ground. Read More...

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Royal Festival Hall

With a click of your heels and a sprinkle of magic let yourself be swept away on a bewitching adventure to see The Wizard of Oz when it’s captioned at London’s Southbank Centre in August. Read More...

If you’d do anything to see the captioned performance of Oliver!, read on ...

Those of you who followed the BBC’s ‘I’d Do Anything’ on Saturday evenings can now catch winner Jodie Prenger as Nancy at the captioned performance of Oliver! next May. Jodie will be joined by one of the 3 Olivers chosen by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Cameron Mackintosh – Gwion Jones, Harry Stott and Laurence Jeffcoate. Rowan Atkinson, best known for TV’s Blackadder and as Mr Bean, will play Fagin. Read More...

See a Voice project enters second phase

The See a Voice project, now entering its second phase, is continuing to work with venues and theatre companies in providing their own captioned and audio described (for blind and partially sighted people) performances. Read More...

Geoff Brown receives first-ever Heather Jackson Award

Geoff Brown, one of the three founders of STAGETEXT, received the first Heather Jackson Award at the National Association of Deafened People’s Conference and AGM on 31st May. Read More...

Captioned performances of Sophie Woolley’s Fight Face

A bored teenager looking for a fight gets her wish outside a West London takeaway. Innocent and not so innocent passers-by get sucked in. The row snowballs, traffic crashes and romance blossoms. Read More...

Grease captioned performance - tickets on sale now

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Summer in the park – with captions

Ever wondered what it would be like to enjoy a summer's evening at the Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park? Well, now’s your chance. STAGETEXT will be providing the first captioned production there on 21 July. Read More...

Caption user has ‘time of her life’ at Dirty Dancing

A deaf audience member loved the captioned performance of Dirty Dancing so much that she's booked to see it again in October. Read her story at: http://funnyoldlife.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/dirty-dancing/ Read More...

Deaf Awareness Week offer at Young Vic

As part of this year’s Deaf Awareness Week, 5-12 May, the Young Vic in London is offering a free programme with every booking made for the captioned performance of Brecht's The Good Soul of Szechuan on Tuesday 10 June at 7.30pm. Read More...

Almeida says full access central to its artistic policy

Writing in Arts Professional (7 April 2008) Miranda Yates, Access Officer, explains how captioning and audio description have made their mark at the Almeida. Read More...

The memories came flooding back …

"Captions have opened a whole new world because, for me, one of the worse things of becoming deaf was missing out on music,” says Suzanne Waite, a bubbly 71-year-old arts enthusiast from Sidcup in Kent. “It's as if my life has come back to me now I know I can visit my beloved theatre.” Read More...

University volunteers support captioning

Nine student volunteers at Sheffield Hallam University have joined forces with the Sheffield Caption Support Group (SCSG) to spread the word about captioned performances in the region, and have produced a full-colour Newsletter and brand new logo. Read More...

Theatre captioning on your doorstep

Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people will soon have access to captioned performances in their local theatre, thanks to a STAGETEXT project funded by Arts Council South East. Read More...

Rosy future for captioning in Kingston

Captioning got off to an encouraging start at the newly-opened Rose Theatre in Kingston on 6 February when STAGETEXT captioned English Touring Theatre’s production of Uncle Vanya. This was the first production at the venue since it opened in January, and the deaf and hard of hearing people who attended hope many more captioned shows will follow. Read More...

Demand for captioning on increase in Sheffield

More and more deaf and hard of hearing people in South Yorkshire are discovering the joy of captioned theatre thanks to stirling work by the Sheffield Caption Support Group (SCSG). Read More...

Theatre Captioning - What’s involved?

It takes skill, experience, training and a great deal of hard work to prepare for a captioned performance. Clare Booth (CB), of the King’s and Festival Theatres in Edinburgh, spoke to Edinburgh-based captioner Ben Poots (BP) about his experience of captioning. Read More...

Captioning gets off to flying start in Dublin

“Great to finally access theatre” … “A brilliant tool! I would have missed the dialogue without it” … “It was like watching television subtitles” Read More...

First captioned show in Dublin

The Abbey Theatre in Dublin has programmed its first captioned performance this autumn. In a new version by Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle, Synge’s great classic, The Playboy of the Western World, will be captioned by STAGETEXT on Saturday 24 November at 2.30pm. Read More...

Newcomer to captioning describes her joy of attending ‘Joseph’ in London’s West End

STAGETEXT, and I was greatly looking forward to it. I am a profoundly deaf, professional singer (I know – odd choice of career – don’t ask), who wears 2 digital hearing aids, so am no stranger to the theatre world. Read More...