The Theatre Royal, (home to the Bristol Old Vic) is the oldest continuously working theater in the English speaking world. (It first opened its doors on 30th May 1766, the same year that Bonnie Prince Charlie became a claimant to the throne of Great Britain.)

The Shaftesbury Theatre is offering a new device to theatre goers, called Airscript. It enables you to read live captions of a performance in eight different languages. The developers, Cambridge Consultants, hope the handsets will attract more tourists into the theatre. The captions, received over wifi, scroll throughout live performances, you pay £6 to hire […]