Media Coverage

The London Stage Database is an example of a successful digital humanities project serving a broad audience within and beyond academe. The resulting website has logged upwards of 130,000 page views from more than 13,500 unique visitors. Hailed by peer reviewers as field-changing, it has become a resource of central importance to theater and performance historians, librarians, and archivists. Beyond academe, LSDB has made its way into magazines for data scientists and communicators, family genealogists, and the international business community. Visit the links below to hear from some of these audiences.

• The Data is Plural Podcast, Season 1, Ep. 2: Listen to a podcast on the history of the London Stage database with the Project Director, Mattie Burkert, and journalist Jeremy Singer-Vine.
• Nightingale: Data is Plural Visualization Challenge: Read Jeremy Singer-Vine’s brief review of the London Stage Database, which he selected for the Nightingale’s inaugural dataset visualization challenge. You can also check out the visualization entries here.
• The Economist: “When was greatness thrust upon William Shakespeare?”: The Economist data journalist, James Tozer, utilizes the London Stage Database to explore Shakespeare’s rise to fame and compare trending Shakespearean performances in the 18th century to his most popular today.