The new season, made available over the upcoming months, includes RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd's production of As You Like It, Timothy Sheader's celebrated staging of Into the Woods from Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and the universally acclaimed production of All My Sons directed by Howard Davies with a cast led by David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker.

 

The new season is the subject of an article by Dominic Cavendish in today's Daily Telegraph, which celebrates the work of Digital Theatre, encouraging readers to 'spread the word.'

 

Full details on each productions are as follows:

 

AS YOU LIKE IT

 

Unable to act on their feelings and forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, lovers Rosalind and Orlando become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.

 

One of Shakespeare's great comedies, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of romance. Gender roles nature and politics are confused in a play that reflects on how bewildering yet utterly pleasurable life can be.

 

Directed by Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Michael Boyd, As You Like It is designed by Tom Piper, lighting by Wolfgang Gobbel, music by John Woolf, sound by Andrew Franks, movement by Struan Leslie and fights by Terry King.

 

Michael Boyd said: 'After completing sold out seasons at Stratford-upon-Avon and the Roundhouse, I am delighted that with Digital Theatre's input the life of As You Like It can be extended. It's great that audiences who were not able to purchase tickets in the UK will now be able to access our production to watch at their leisure.'

 

INTO THE WOODS

 

Into the Woods takes the stories of the Brothers Grimm and gives them a dark and humorous twist.  The popular tales of Red Ridinghood, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Cinderella and Rapunzel are interwoven with that of the Baker and his Wife and their quest to have a child.  However this re-telling goes beyond 'happily ever after' as the familiar characters find themselves in unfamiliar circumstances and hopes and dreams are questioned and revisited.

 

Celebrating Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, the 2010 season at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre closed with Sondheim and Lapine's 1987 musical Into the Woods co-directed by Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel. With designs by Soutra Gilmour, movement by co-director Liam Steel, musical supervision and direction Gareth Valentine, lighting by Jon Clark, orchestrations by Chris Walker and sound by Mike Walker, Into the Woods became the highest selling single production at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

 

Earlier this month it was announced that Into the Woods has received two Laurence Olivier Award nominations - Best Musical Revival and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Michael Xavier.

 

ALL MY SONS

 

All My Sons is Arthur Miller's 20th century classic play about social responsibility set against personal gain.  When Joe Keller places prosperity of his family above the lives of others the consequences for all are painful and calamitous.

 

Directed by Howard Davies and designed by William Dudley, the universally acclaimed All My Sons which enjoyed a sell out season at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End last year, has lighting by Mark Henderson, music by Dominic Muldowney and sound by Paul Groothius.  All My Sons was produced in the West End by Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions, Eric Falkenstein, Robert G. Bartner and Noman Tulchin, Simon Meadon, Dan Frishwasser.

 

The production has already received an Evening Standard award for Best Director for Howard Davies and a Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for David Suchet.  Earlier this month it was announced that All My Sons has received two Laurence Olivier Award nominations - Best Revival and Best Actor for David Suchet.

 

The cast is led by David Suchet as Joe Keller and Zoe Wanamaker as Kate Keller.  They are accompanied by Stephen Campbell Moore as Chris, Olivia Darnley as Lydia Lubey, Steven Elder as Dr Jim Bayliss, Claire Hackett as Sue Bayliss, Daniel Lapaine as George Deever, Jemima Rooper as Ann Deever, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Frank Lubey and Ted Allpress as Bert.