It's official! This is the new home of Theatreforum.com

Would it not be easy enough to just have a general 'regional' section? There's no point having region specific boards because they wouldn't be used enough and most regional theatre is touring productions which tour, so.

I understand the difference between regional theatre and tours, when I said regional theatre I was referring to the theatre in the regions. If you're in Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Sheffield, Chichester etc. then there's a wealth of regional theatre produced, but if you're from the middle of the south coast, you're getting touring productions.


This is why I agreed with you and suggested a general 'regional' board rather than specific areas as some were suggesting, so I agreed with you, no? 

There are two reasons why I think a Regional section is a bad idea:

1) It's been tried before and it failed. Your argument that this is a new site is moot, because it implies that the people who used WhatsOnStage are in some way a different type of person than those who will use this site. The factors that caused the failure of the old Regional section are still in play.

2) There's nothing about titles like "Plays" and "Musicals" that says "West End only", and having a separate section called "Regional" carries the implication that regional theatre is of secondary importance. It's not having a "Regional" section that sends the message "this is for everyone".

The reason why we're echoing the structure of the old site isn't lack of ambition. It's because the structure of the old site is one that had been found to work.

Many thanks to all for setting up the new site.

Have we dropped the www.theatreboard.co.uk/ address - as its currently unreachable on IE and chrome on my PC.

theatreboard.proboards.com/ seems to be working fine - thats how I am typing this.

Is it a change, or a blip - or something my end - like BT's DNS ?

Hi. Am I missing something? Every time I return to this board it takes me to the beginning of each thread

Thanks

I just removed TheatreForum from the favourites on my phone and replaced it with TheatreBoard - now I feel like I've properly committed to our new home.

I need a picture for my profile. Just need to find something theatrically appropriate.....

Yes the "new" board started in Feb 2007 and had a rocky start - loads of spam posts and a particularly nasty troll which older members might remember! WoS were very resistant to the idea of registration.

... and Lee W did not seem to stay the course!!

Well this is all very nice. Well done to all involved in the move across.

So, this has happened.