UKTW Looking for new partners

UK Theatre Web, the oldest, most detailed and largest performing arts archive on the web, is looking for new sponsors, relationships and support as we enter our 30th year!

UK Theatre Web has been providing uk-wide performing arts listings services since February 1995 – three and a half years before Google appeared! As we approach our 30th year, and the end of our listings supply contract with the Whatsonstage website, we are looking for new sponsors and clients to work with us as we continue developing this amazing resource.

In addition to providing listings of current and future shows across the UK, around 15,000 at any one time, we maintain our valuable archive of performance information dating back into the mid-1990s. In addition to the basic details of an event  we seek to provide creative and cast information for shows, with close to a quarter of a million people/companies mentioned.

We now have the opportunity to seek new listings clients and sponsors both for the live information and for the archive. This will enable us to maintain and further develop the facilities we currently provide.

The archive currently contains over 138,000 works in over 224,0000 production giving  a total of over 1.1 million listings. It forms an unique,  valuable, searchable, on-line resource freely available to all. The archive continues to grow on a daily basis as we add to the current and future listings.

Over the past 30 years we have listed shows without charging venues or production companies, having been supported largely through content supply contracts. At various times we have supplied Whatsonstage, the BBC, the eTelegraph, the New York Times (Digital) and various smaller organisations. Links to over a dozen ticket suppliers attached to the listings, around 15,000 links for nearly 10,000 shows, at any one time provide an easy way for users to find available tickets and many provide a small affiliate commission.

Director Robert Iles says “Developing UKTW over the year,  and working with clients in the professional  performing arts arena, has been our passion since we first experimented on-line in 1994.Those early trials resulted in the UK Theatre Web service we launched the following year. As we move into a new era, we hope that there are organisations out there who can share in helping us to maintain this activity for the benefit of all. ”

 Over the past 30 years we have undertaken many website and theatre database consultancy projects from box offices to bulk mailers, to archival/live user and sales data consolidation, to websites for venues, organisations  and single shows. A number of organisations, across the performing arts arena, have benefitted from our specialist expertise over the last 30 years as we developed their prototype and first-generation on-line systems including Encore Tickets, The National Theatre and many others.

All of the above has been completed by our small team (Directors Robert and Frances Iles) who enter and check all the details and undertake the technical development, consultancy and on-going support. This enables us to maintain a high level of consistency and considerable technical flexibility whilst remaining cost effective. In addition,  we have been involved with the SIT-UP Awards for social impact theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe each year since its inception. 

If you are interested in working with us to ensure that the archive can continue to survive and grow, please contact us – we are interested in looking for listings clients (we can provide data in multiple forms), sponsorship for the archive or some simple philanthropy to maintain this amazing resource!