SOUND & VISION
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The King & Master Builder
The Tortoise & The Hare
Prya and the Twirling Wind
Where the Night Came From
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CREATIVE TOOLKIT
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Make a Giraffe
Family Dance Workshop
Making a Drum Kit
Yoghurt Pot Animals
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“In our increasingly alienated world, what could be more important than introducing young people to the healing, uniting, emotional experience of theatre?”
MICHAEL ATTENBOROUGH CBE
Digital Theatre Collection
The Digital Theatre Collection for children, powered by Theatre Makers on YouTube, serves to showcase the work of emerging and established theatre makers through to household names in the UK and around the world. Each playlist is attributed to a featured theatre maker with link to their website, in blue text under playlist title, enabling schools and families to explore availability of shows and workshops through to entertainment and educational resources both live and on demand. The Digital Theatre Collection is accessible without sign in or subscription to teachers, families and anyone with a love for creativity.

Children’s television, film and theatre are blood relatives, the trio are rooted in storytelling. There is no reason, if children’s theatre makers can engage an audience they know better than anyone (holding a child’s attention in real time for an hour is no mean feat), that children’s theatre cannot be as successful as its siblings in a digital space.
Annabel Morley – CEO Children’s Theatre Digital
OnTheMap Directory & Festival Calendar
The OnTheMap Directory lists theatre makers in the UK and around the world with links to their websites where you can explore shows, creative workshops, festivals and events. The Festival Calendar features annual events within the UK and Ireland.
Sharing the imaginative power of theatre with new generations
Children’s Theatre Digital is designed by Annabel Morley and Sean Hollands. We are both theatre directors in the UK with a simple ambition, to get theatre in front of more children. We want to promote the children’s theatre sector and share the imaginative power of theatre with new generations. When we started this project we knew very little about streaming platforms or websites, but here we are! We have learnt a lot since we started working on this project back in the early days of 2020. We hope that you will see that hard work reflected in where Children’s Theatre Digital is today.
“Theatre is so important for young minds. From expanding imaginations, to connecting with emotions; the world of performance encourages confidence and enables the ability to see the world in colour.”
OLIVIA BIRCHENOUGH
Who We Are
Our Story
We started Children’s Theatre Digital with a simple ambition, to get theatre in front of more children.
Our Patrons
We are indebted to our patrons for their unwavering support in our mission to bring accessible theatre to children everywhere!
Our Partners
We travel together with our partners and supporters on our journey facilitating accessible theatre to entertain, educate and inspire generations!
“Theatre is all about the creative imagination, and nowhere is this more important and more apparent than in the minds of young people. Children’s theatre seeks to inspire young people to engage in the arts.”
NICHOLAS PINNOCK
Theatre Notes
What is Children’s Theatre Digital?
Children's Theatre Digital: Explore
The choice is yours!
Trailer 2022
Videographer/Editor: Ben Hewis
Video extracts: The Plé Collective, Tessa Bide Productions, Can’t Sit Still Theatre
Is Digital Theatre becoming the most financially viable option for family theatre? Annabel Morley, co-founder of Children’s Theatre Digital which provides a site to explore and interact with the best of theatre for young people across the globe, discusses the importance of digital theatre in the modern age and how valuable it can be to family viewers and the shows they support. An interesting look at the way live and digital interact in today’s creative culture as well as the value each element offers. Digital cannot live without live. Live cannot thrive without digital. A question I’ve been asking myself constantly creating Children’s Theatre Digital has been ‘can theatre live without the…Is Digital Theatre becoming the most financially viable option for family theatre?
“Children are instinctively theatrical. They build their worlds by telling stories about the experiences they see and the inner lives they imagine.”
SONYA WALGER
Digital cannot live without live. Live cannot thrive without digital.