New theatre-streaming site - includes Rufus in "Henry IV"

[GreenEyesToo]

This sounds exciting - not only for future productions, but for those who haven't seen Rufus in Henry IV: www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/theater/new-site-streams-theater-productions-1.1442603

A new online streaming service launched this week that hopes to one day become the Netflix of Broadway, offering high-definition broadcasts of top theatrical events to computers and phones.

BroadwayHD currently has a modest list of plays and musicals ready to stream but hopes to eventually be the place where theater fans and educators turn for their live event fix.

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Users can buy a monthly subscription for $14.99 or a yearly one for $169.99. There's also free content. The shows can be streamed to computers, mobile devices and TVs — both Apple TV or Google Chromecast.

While sites such as iTunes, Amazon Video, Netflix and GooglePlay stream musicals and plays on phones and tablets, BroadwayHD hopes to become the go-to library to find live-captured theatrical events, whether from off-Broadway or the West End, after a show has been seen in cinemas or on cable TV.

While the service currently leans heavily on the archives of the BBC, WNET-TV in New York and Broadway Worldwide, the creators hope they will be able to expand their titles with partnerships and their own captures.

Offerings at launch include more than 120 productions, mostly classics from Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov.

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A sample of what you can now find on BroadwayHD includes Orlando Bloom in the 2013 Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet," a live "Jekyll & Hyde" with David Hasselhoff in 2001, Helen Mirren in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Montego Glover and Chad Kimball in "Memphis," Daniel Craig and Stephen Rea in "Copenhagen" from a BBC TV movie in 2002, and Rufus Sewell in "Henry IV." Up next will be Audra McDonald as Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" after it airs on HBO.

[midoro]

Thanks for the great news GE2! 

[nell]

Well spotted GE2!

[rueful]

Cool! I hope they will be successful and continue to expand their offerings. Thanks for posting this, GE2!

[judypatooty]

Cool!! Thanks for the info, GE2!

[lassie]

That does sound exciting. Thanks GE2

[kygal]

Great info! Thanks!

[Rachel]

Thank you for finding and posting GE2- this sounds wonderful. I'll have to check it out.

[francesca]

Wonderful site!
Big But. When i first visited, there was a wonderful pic with Rufus as Hotspur advertising Henry IV but when i went back a few days later to stream it , it had been removed !??!
Will try again now my PC has come back to me fit and well.
Did anybody else find the same?