BroadwayHD is an on-demand digital streaming media company. Based in New York City, the company records and distributes live theatre performances and previously recorded theatrical productions through its platform.[ "Broadway on Demand? New Streaming Service Aims to Bring Stage to Screens" by Gordon Cox, Variety, October 26, 2015]
History
Stewart F. Lane and
Bonnie Comley,
Tony Award-winning producers, wanted to democratize the niche market of
Broadway theatre by filming live productions and making them available to a wider audience through the internet. As long standing members of the community, they formed agreements with all 17 unions, guilds and associations behind Broadway shows so that show creators are compensated for filming. BroadwayHD has partnered with leading theatre companies such as Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Geffen and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
BroadwayHD's website, which featured on demand streaming, launched in fall 2015 with 100 titles from Broadway and London's West End.
She Loves Me livestream
In June 2016, BroadwayHD produced a live stream of the Roundabout Theater Company's production of
She Loves Me from Studio 54.
The production earned BroadwayHD a Guinness World Record for the first live stream of a Broadway show.
[ "Broadway is making history by live-streaming She Loves Me direct from the stage" by Aja Romano, Vox, June 30, 2016]
Tony Awards Backstage Broadcast
In 2016 BroadwayHD produced the first extra behind-the-scenes video content streamed show during the CBS telecast of the awards, live from the Beacon Theatre.
Productions
In addition to its livestream of
She Loves Me, the company has also produced livestreams of The Geffen Playhouse's
Long Day's Journey into Night starring
Jane Kaczmarek and
Alfred Molina,
, starring
Bryce Pinkham and
Corbin Bleu,
and
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me.
BroadwayHD has also produced Present Laughter with Kevin Kline,
Digital on-demand library
As of April 2018, BroadwayHD's library includes over 200 titles
[ including Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma!][
]
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