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Features

Theatre Record provides a wide range of features to subscribers, enabling them to easily browse the catalogue or research.

At a Glance

The At a Glance sections provide a quick overview of recent and large productions that have been reviewed, broken down by region. Large productions are shown above, in the Top Picks section. Recent productions are shown below, in the Recent Openings section.

Archive

Theatre Record boasts an extensive history containing over 58,000 productions spanning 44 years. This is available in its entirety to all subscribers through the Archive section. Volumes are created annually containing all the issues published that year. Older issues (pre-2022) are available in PDF form, with pre-2016 issues being scanned in from the original printed copies.

Issues in the Archive are indexed by title, theatre, author, cast and creatives, and in the case of results from newer issues, synopsis. Even the issues that were not originally published digitally are indexed and fully searchable within the Search section.

Production Listings

The What's On section provides a list of productions that are upcoming or currently debuting, with their press contact details where available. All productions are searchable with their title, synopsis and theatre, and are split into categories:

  • West End - any theatre in our list of West End theatres
  • London - any theatre in London, including those already covered above
  • Regional - all theatres in England and Wales, outside of London
  • Scotland - all theatres in Scotland
Each category is split into Current and Future. These listings are not just limited to productions Theatre Record has reviews for. When a production closes, it is removed from these listings. Unless there are no reviews for it, it can still be seen through the Archive.

Account Management

The My Account section can be used to view and modify details of your account. Both personal and institution accounts can see their details, change their password, and update their name. At the bottom of the page, you may view your usage statistics. These are the number of logins and number of issues viewed for both all time, and broken down by year.

Institution accounts work slightly differently. When a member of an institution uses the "Institutional Sign In" button, their IP will be matched to an institution, and they'll automatically be signed in as a member of that institution. Should their IP not match any institution, they'll be redirected to the OpenAthens sign in page, giving them a second change to authenticate as a member of any institution. While members of an institution can sign in using this method, the manager for an institution may sign in with the normal form, using their email and password. This will allow them to manage their account, modify their details, access the institution management panel. Only the institution manager can see the My Account page for that institution.

The management panel allows institution managers to update their allowed IP ranges and OpenAthens details to control access to their account. Institution managers may add, modify, and remove as many IP ranges as they wish to their account, and the changes will take effect immediately. The same is true for OpenAthens and any OpenID Scopes to which you wish to grant access. When a member signs in or views issues, it counts towards that institution's statistics, which is viewable from the management panel.

The email used to subscribe to Theatre Record will be the email used to access the institution management panel, and also the email used to contact the institution manager. It is recommended that this email be generic, and not tied to any particular member of staff (e.g. ""). This prevents anyone being locked out if the member of staff in control of that email account should leave.