Bush Theatre has announced productions for the second half of 2024. Learn more about the full lineup here!
Em, a young queer Scot, is on the bonnie banks of Loch Ness when they encounter the fabled monster…only Nessie sincerely wishes that they wouldn’t use the word ‘monster.’
Dundee Rep Theatre and Cove Park have announced the musical theatre artists who will participate in a pioneering new creative residency programme in Scotland this Spring. Learn more about the artists here!
2023 has been a big year for theatre. It’s easy to say that every year, but in the past twelve months we have seen a real shakeup of artistic directors, as well as a whole series of new smash hits, from revivals to new musicals to cutting-edge plays. With the pandemic era of closed buildings and Zoom plays fading into memory, theatre is well and truly back and thriving.
THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE has unveiled new installments in the International Department's 'New Plays:' series. Get the latest updates on upcoming productions.
The Squint Playwriting Award Showcase will present the work of nine emerging playwrights from low-income backgrounds. The showcase features ten minutes of each writer's work from a full-length play they are developing, performed by a professional cast. Get all the details here!
The Young Vic Theatre and Genesis Foundation is excited to announce Andrea Ling as the 2023 Genesis Future Directors Award recipient.
A nationally profiled theatre company and a national drama school are collaborating to open Collective Theatre, a new performing space for inner London. Learn more about the new space here!
La Compañía Nacional de Teatro, en el marco del proyecto Sedes Regionales CNT, estrenará en la ciudad de Campeche su primera sede regional ubicada en el sureste del país al ofrecer varias puestas en escena y algunos talleres.
The town where Anna and Eireni are studying has been hit by a number of racially provoked murders. There doesn’t seem to be a pattern, except that the victims are all immigrants. While a non-existing strand of organised crime is being blamed, the two women meet after a shocking event and decide to infiltrate a far-right festival to find out what’s going on.
El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) y la Compañía Nacional de Teatro (CNT), en coproducción con el Royal Court Theatre en México y el apoyo de Anglo Arts, departamento cultural de The Anglo Mexican Foundation y el British Council en México presentarán Latir, un texto de Bárbara Colio, originalmente dirigida por Debbie Hannan, con guía de remontaje de Luis Rivera.
Shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2019, Eve Leigh’s play is a queer coming-of-age love story inspired by true events. Anna and Eireni are in the throes of young love while studying at university.
Award-winning, East London-based theatre company Squint today announces and opens applications for The Squint Playwriting Award. Accompanied by a six-month Educational Programme, the Award is designed to support East London artists from low-income backgrounds for whom money is currently a barrier to professional development.
Theatre company and social justice charity Cardboard Citizens today announce tour dates, cast and crew for the 2023 national tour of FAUN - a new play from acclaimed performer and writer, Vinnie Heaven. FAUN explores the homelessness crisis affecting transgender people in the UK and how sometimes home isn't always easy to find.
Sound of the Underground, co-created by Travis Alabanza and Debbie Hannan, unleashes queer chaos on the historic Royal Court. Over the course of three acts, a cast of real London drag performers use every weapon in their arsenal to shed light on the realities of the city’s dying queer nightlife scene, the commercialisation of drag, the persistence of homophobia and transphobia, and the lack of money in the arts… but they have a lot of fun in doing so.
Read the reviews for Travis Alabanza’s Sound of the Underground, now playing at the Royal Court Theatre.
UK's writers' room for theatre, Stockroom confirms a slate of three new productions for 2023, which sees it team up with four leading venues across the UK. These productions constitute part of the company's previously announced evolution to focus on writer and script development and follows its recent loss of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Stockroom in Association with Naked Productions present the Sound Stage audio premiere of Blaccine First Dose, three new monologues which investigate the Black British community's relationship with the Covid-19 vaccine in January 2023.
Casting has been announced for Travis Alabanza's first play for the Royal Court Theatre, Sound of the Underground. Spotlighting London's iconic underground club culture and questioning what it means to get your money's worth when it comes to art, Sound of the Underground will bring together legends of the London Queer club scene from Thursday 19 January - Saturday 25 February 2023 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
After an extremely encouraging Spring-Summer 2022 season, with a strong programme of work, including four productions made in house, Moorcroft, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything, hang and Underwood Lane, and many sold-out and critically acclaimed performances, Tron Theatre launches a season of work for the autumn.
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