Theatricalia will hopefully become the repository of theatre productions on the internet. In doing so, it will enable people to discover theatre that is going on around them, follow actors they have seen in previous productions, and record memorable events of productions they have seen.
Theatricalia was written by me in my spare time, because I needed it to exist. We had seen some fantastic actors in the RSC Histories Cycle, and found there was no way to find out what other things those actors were going to be in, or indeed had been in apart from their short blurbs in the programme.
It launches with the data for all RSC productions since its foundation in 1879, all Birmingham Repertory Theatre productions up to and including 1971 when it moved to its current location in Centenary Square, the wide variety of productions held by the University of Bristol Theatre Archive, and the complete archive of the Royal National Theatre. I hope those organisations like that their data is being made available more widely in an easy-to-use interface.
