Resource reviews: Children's Theatre Digital

‘In our increasingly alienated world, what could be more important than introducing young people to the healing, uniting, emotional experience of theatre?’, says Michael Attenborough, CBE, one of the newly announced patrons of Children's Theatre Digital. Sharing free theatre entertainment with children across the globe, Children's Theatre Digital is a gigantic online web of videos and information for young students and teachers. Launched during the pandemic by theatre directors Annabel Morley and Sean Hollands, the platform is the world's first and only site that exclusively centralises and streams children's theatre content.

The website is vibrant and brimming with an immense bank of resources – both for free and with pockets of paid-for content – and has recently launched an expansion to offer school resources, alongside a newly implemented monthly subscription service. Three patrons have shown their support for the platform so far alongside Attenborough: actors Nicholas Pinnock and Sonya Walger, and Channel 5 Milkshake presenter Olivia Birchenough.