Stuart Slade

Theatre Aspen will present its second annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, as the third act of this year’s 38th summer season, launching next Wednesday, August 25 and running through Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado. 

Ahead of the start of the 38th Season, Theatre Aspen announced today that after a successful first flight, the organization will present its second annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, as the third act of this year’s summer season, August 25 – 31, 2021 at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado.

The National Theatre have today announced director Grace Gummer as the first recipient of the NT Women of Tomorrow Directors Award, as part of a partnership with the CHANEL Fund for Women ina??thea??Arts and Culture and inaugural venue partner The Yard Theatre. Grace was selected from over 160 applicants by the panel which included representatives from the NT and The Yard.

Artistic Director Lisa Spirling today announces an entire year of programming for 2020 at the home of new writers, including the news that all four remaining finalists of the 2018 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award will be staged at the venue by November 2020. This follows on from the success of Award winner Out of Sorts by Danusia Samal premiering in October 2019. In February, the search for the best debut and emerging writers in the world will begin again as the 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award opens for submissions.

Today, Monday 4th November 2019, Phoebe Eclair-Powell's play, SHED: EXPLODED VIEW, has been named the overall winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting during a ceremony at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. As well as receiving £16,000, Eclair-Powell will work with the Royal Exchange Theatre's creative team to develop the script.

Today, Tuesday 15th October 2019, the Royal Exchange Theatre and Bruntwood announce the shortlist for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. The Prize a?" the largest for playwriting in Europe a?" seeks scripts from established, emerging and debut writers to develop for the stage, in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre's creative team.

After a sell-out, award-nominated run and a West End transfer, Stuart Slade's BU21 will have its Australian premiere at The Old 505 Theatre from February 8 with an opening night on February 9. Outhouse Theatre, the company behind acclaimed productions of The Aliens and 4 Minutes 12 Seconds, is thrilled to introduce local audiences to one of Britain's most exciting, emerging playwrights.

After the success of 'The Aliens' and '4 Minutes 12 Seconds', BU21 continues Outhouse's mission of producing new playwriting that engages with the challenges of our modern world. 

Gary Naylor looks back on 148 shows reviewed in 2016 and picks his Christmas turkeys and Christmas crackers.

After a sell-out, award-nominated run and a West End transfer, Stuart Slade's BU21 will have its Australian premiere at The Old 505 Theatre from February 8 with an opening night on February 9. Outhouse Theatre, the company behind acclaimed productions of The Aliens and 4 Minutes 12 Seconds, is thrilled to introduce local audiences to one of Britain's most exciting, emerging playwrights.

Every night on the news there's literally always some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shit going down… And I always wonder 'how would I cope, if that happened to me?'

Building on the success of 2016's spring season, which garnered a total of eight Off West End Award nominations and included Stuart Slade's highly-acclaimed BU21, Theatre503's autumn season comprises of four works of outstanding new writing.

From the director of Theatre503's recently acclaimed BU21 comes JELLY BEANS. Dan Pick's first full-length play is a brutally honest, hilarious and pitch-black confessional about what happens when every axiom of your life turns out to be a lie.

From the director of Theatre503's recently acclaimed BU21 comes JELLY BEANS. Dan Pick's first full-length play is a brutally honest, hilarious and pitch-black confessional about what happens when every axiom of your life turns out to be a lie.

Gary Naylor sees a play that shows humanity at its best and worst and plenty of points in between, driven by a brilliant script by one of Britain's best young playwrights.

The passengers from BU21 fell from 4,500 feet... I looked it up on the internet, how long a fall from 4,500 feet takes. 22 seconds.

The passengers from BU21 fell from 4,500 feet... I looked it up on the internet, how long a fall from 4,500 feet takes. 22 seconds.

Thomas Kyd's THE SPANISH TRAGEDY, directed by Dan Hutton, opened 11 February and runs through 5th March 2016 at the Old Red Lion. A group of six actors takes on Kyd's revenge tragedy and bring a world of villainy, vengeance and warped justice to life.

The passengers from BU21 fell from 4,500 feet... I looked it up on the internet, how long a fall from 4,500 feet takes. 22 seconds.

Andrew comments, I'm thrilled to be joining Theatre 503 to work with Paul and his brilliant team. As a passionate advocate of new writing and supporting emerging talent, it's incredibly exciting to be part of one of London's best venues for groundbreaking new work.