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iTheatre not as “comprehensive” as it claims
30th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I can't contest the claim in the press release that iTheatre is "the first iPhone application dedicated to London theatres". I am equally powerless to deny that the app features "reviews, seating plans, ticket availability and even mapping services". But I will dispute to the death the assertion that it can keep users "up to date with all the latest shows" (my italics).
iTheatre was developed by Ubinow Solutions for BestOfTheatre.co.uk,... -
Arts Futurism – autoteatro on your iPod
3rd July 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Arts Futurism is an occasional strand in which I discuss, based on current developments, what might be next for the arts.
Audio-instructed performance may be the future of theatre, or it may not be theatre at all. It abandons the boundary between audience and performer and currently can only be experienced by very few participants at a time, but costs little to stage and can be endlessly reproduced, perhaps making it... -
Arts Futurism – the international live theatre exchange
25th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Arts Futurism is an occasional strand in which I discuss, based on current developments, what might be next for the arts.
At 7:00pm tonight, Helen Mirren will perform as Phèdre on the National Theatre's Lyttelton stage. Nicholas Hytner's production of Jean Racine's play has been running for two weeks already, but tonight's performance is different. Tonight's performance will be broadcast live to over 250 cinema screens in 19 countries, in an...
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