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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!

Rose Bruford College has announced this year’s Fellows and Honorary Fellows including renowned actors Toby Jones and Sam Palladio, all of whom were celebrated at the 2023 graduation ceremonies. Learn more about the fellows here!

Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch have announced full casting for the European première of Clyde’s which reunites double Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and director Lynette Linton as a follow up to their Donmar smash hit Sweat which transferred to the West End.

As Hackney Empire celebrates more than 120 years at the heart of the local community, Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team have revealed details of the theatre’s Creative Futures endeavours for 2023.

With the sold-out production of Noël Coward's Private Lives currently running until 27 May, Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch have announced the final two shows in the programme for 2023, and the conclusion of Donmar's 30th birthday season.

This follows A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning new musical direct from Broadway with performances until 9 September and includes a world premiere from Belarus Free Theatre, UK premieres by Why Not Theatre, Eun-Me Ahn, Pam Tanowitz and David Lang, a cross-cultural festival curated by Inua Ellams, the return of Dance Umbrella andTold by an Idiot, and a line-up of exciting and experimental theatre makers in The Pit.

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.

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced their new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and further programming for 2023.

Squint Theatre has announced the publication of a collection of plays and theatre-making tools by Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Three Plays by Squint & How They Were Made brings three of the company's plays together with the methods used to create them, in a practical, user-friendly toolkit.

Join National Youth Theatre and some of Britain's leading voices for a world-first all-night West End youth takeover at the iconic Duke of York's Theatre on 10 February 2023. 

The National Theatre is touring a new production, Shut Up, I'm Dreaming, created by physical ensemble theatre company The PappyShow to state secondary schools across the country from 9th January – 31st March 2023.  

The National Theatre has announced three new productions for 2023 and the revival of the critically acclaimed The Father and the Assassin. A new production devised by The PappyShow will tour directly to 55 schools across England, and National Theatre Live brings The Crucible, Othello and GOOD to cinema goers around the world.

In 2012 Paul Roseby, Artistic Director and CEO of National Youth Theatre (NYT), launched a new REP company that would provide intensive real-world experience each year to a group of young performers and creatives.

As Hackney Empire celebrates 120 years at the heart of the local community, and in the wake of the recent release of the, 20 Years of Creative Futures Impact Report Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team have announced details of this summer's Artist Development Programme (ADP) project.

National Youth Theatre has announced the appointment of 10 new Associate Companies, which it will collaborate with over the next two years to champion their work and create more opportunities for the charity's national network of 14,000 young creative people.

Today, Nottingham Playhouse announces the initial casting for the world premiere of First Touch, a gripping, hard-hitting and heartfelt drama about what it takes to fulfil one's dreams.  This world premiere inspired by the recent abuse scandals in football, is written by rising talent Nathaniel Price (Noughts and Crosses BBC),

The National Theatre today announces new productions for all three South Bank stages this summer: Jack Absolute Flies Again in the Olivier theatre, Much Ado About Nothing in the Lyttelton theatre and All of Us in the Dorfman theatre with tickets on sale to the public from Thursday 10 March.  

Directed by Maddy Corner the cast is Tanya Cubric (Jana), Ojan Genc (Stefan/Nikola) and Eleanor Roberts (Katarina/Elena). Set in Serbia, Bosnia and the UK, Trade is a thought-provoking, unflinching new play exploring morality and power within the European sex-trafficking industry.

As part of Hackney Empire's world-renowned Creative Futures Programme, Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team are pleased to announce the digital release of NIGHTSHADE – the 2021 Artist Development Programme (ADP) show – THE WRITERS' ROOM – 10 short plays by young writers to be presented on the main stage, as well as CREATORS COLLIDE and THE PROGRESSION SESSIONS, new development courses for young people this spring.

New Adventures has announced their Overture dance artist cohort for 2021/2022. Established in 2016, Overture is the annual New Adventures professional development programme for dance artists and dance teachers from a variety of genres who have been working in community or education settings for less than five years.