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Arts Council England uplift funding for museums, talks and tours programme

Tue 27th Jun, 2017

Stagetext is delighted to announce that The Arts Council England (ACE) has increased our funding to include support for the first time to our museum and galleries Talks programme. In the last year Stagetext captioned over 1,000 events within Theatres, Museums and Galleries, reaching an estimated 350,000 users; the ACE funding will allow Stagetext to … Continued

Shakespeare Half-Marathon – A Report From the Ground by Stagetext Deputy Chair Tim Hardy

Tue 16th May, 2017

“It’s not just elite runners these days who have to cope with off-course distractions of media commitments, meeting the sponsors and the rest, over and above getting to the start on time, making sure one’s wearing the right shoes, taken on board the right amount of carbs, liquids etc and generally ready for the challenge … Continued

Guildhall student Rosey Lock becomes Stagetext’s newest captioner

Fri 28th Apr, 2017

Congratulations to Guildhall School of Speech & Drama student Rosey Lock on passing her Stagetext Certificate in Captioning. Stagetext regularly visits drama schools to give An Introduction To Theatre Access to students on Technical, Stage Management and Performing Arts courses. These sessions are run in conjunction with VocalEyes the national audio description charity. We feel giving artists and practitioners … Continued

Stagetext appoints digital accessibility expert as new Chair

Wed 8th Feb, 2017

Stagetext is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chair of its Board of Trustees: Professor Jonathan Hassell. Professor Jonathan Hassell. Professor Hassell takes over from Richard Lee, who will step down from the role after serving as Chair for six years. Professor Hassell is a globally recognised thought leader in digital inclusion and … Continued

Stagetext on TV: London Live with Melanie Sharpe

Tue 15th Nov, 2016

Watch the subtitled London Live interview with Stagetext’s CEO Melanie Sharpe, which took place on breakfast television on the morning of Mon 14 Nov, to kick-off Captioning Awareness Week 2016. In this 5 minute clip, Melanie discusses the importance of captions and live subtitles for deaf audiences, alongside London Live’s presenter Anthony Baxter.

Stagetext features in the government’s White Paper for Culture

Wed 30th Mar, 2016

Stagetext and VocalEyes were delighted to feature in the government’s The Culture White Paper released Photo: Anthony Brown yesterday, 23 March 2016, which sets out the government’s future ambition and strategy for the cultural sectors: ‘The government would like to see more widespread adoption of the services provided by Stagetext, which provides captioning and live subtitled services … Continued

Stagetext’s CEO Melanie Sharpe: My Gurus

Tue 29th Mar, 2016

Read this emotive article in Arts Professional with Stagetext’s new CEO Melanie Sharpe, in which she discusses the professional Gurus who have guided and inspired her throughout her career. Read the article here.

President of Japan’s Theatre Accessibility network wins prestigious award

Wed 23rd Mar, 2016

Stagetext would like to congratulate the president of Japan’s Theatre Accessibility network (TA-net), Asako TA-net Team with Stagetext’s captioner Beverley Ward Hirokawa, who has won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (of development of the arts), presented on 15 March 16. TA-net is a non-for-profit organisation … Continued

Stagetext’s first live subtitled outdoor tours

Thu 28th Jan, 2016

Sat 23 Jan 16 marked an exciting day for Stagetext, as we provided our first outdoor tablet tours with live subtitles at the Kentish Town Lock Open Day, part of the Canal and Rivers Trust, in North West London. Stagetext provides theatre captioning and live subtitling in cultural venues for deaf, deafened and hard of … Continued

Articles on Stagetext

Fri 4th Dec, 2015

The world’s longest-running publication for the performing arts industry, The Stage, recently featured two interviews A captioner prepares at Shakespeare’s Globe with Stagetext. The first, with Stagetext’s Captioner Alex Romeo and Theatre Programme Manager Bethan Way, focusses on the intricate preparation required to caption a play. The second is with our new CEO Melanie Sharp in … Continued

#CAPaware: I ♥ Stagetext revisited

Fri 13th Nov, 2015

Michelle Hedley first discovered captioning in 2011. In this updated blog which Michelle first wrote in 2012 entitled I ♥ Stagetext, she describes how theatre going has become a truly enjoyable experience, and that the captions allow her to fully follow the performance. I have been deaf since birth and with my severe hearing loss … Continued

Findings of CaptionCue technology tests

Mon 19th Oct, 2015

Following a series of research events at the National Theatre earlier this year, Stagetext are pleased to release the findings of our technology project, which saw 166 people test the quality of new automatic theatre captions produced by CaptionCue. The events tested captions as they were received by users with and without hearing loss through … Continued