Digital Access to the Performing Arts

Magda Romanska is Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College, Faculty Associate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and researcher at metaLAB at Harvard.

‘This is an urgent and necessary book. It insists, without apology, that digital access to performance is not a luxury, but a lifeline – a matter of both disability rights and human rights. By offering practical tools for theatre makers to reach disabled, elderly, homebound and geographically isolated audiences – as well as the digital natives who grew up online – it challenges our field to expand its horizons and embrace the communities that sustained it during the darkest months of the pandemic. In doing so, it calls upon artists, institutions and funders alike to imagine a future of both access and artistry.’ Anne Bogart, Columbia University

• 1. Introduction2. Theatre and Digitality3. Successful Case Studies4. Real and Perceived Challenges5. Recommendations