Streaming should be the future for theatre | Letters

Livestreams change the game for those who can't access live theatre, writes Richard Lee, while John Warburton thinks all National Theatre productions should be broadcast by the BBC

Larry Elliott's optimistic article (Covid pandemic might unlock doors to golden age for the arts, 23 May) rightly points out the place of technology as the key driver for cultural change. Already in the vanguard by committing to stream every production is the Young Vic, tentatively supported by the Almeida, and hopefully underpinned by the National Theatre at Home service.

These change the game for those who can't access live theatre, with captioning, audio description and literally being there" when you can't make it. Beats me why every show isn't getting a livestream, given that audiences for this year, and possibly for some time, will be reduced through social distancing. I love live events, but as bits of me fail, the words are never clearer than through subtitles and headphones, the moves and expressions never more detailed than in close-up, and what better way to break down the metropolitan stranglehold and give regional theatres an equal footing, as the Leicester Curve and its peers are promising?