Sitara Effat Ahangari was named the 2026 June Bingham New Playwright Commission recipient by Live & In Color for DAR TARJAMEH [IN TRANSLATION], a new play exploring identity and language between Farsi and English.
PlayPenn, the national center for new plays and playwrights devoted to nurturing bold new voices in contemporary theatre, has announced its 2025/2026 Cohort and the reimagining of one of its core artistic programs.
Lakewood Playhouse debuts its Festival of New Voices October 15–19, 2025, featuring seven original plays and post-show talkbacks. The festival spotlights emerging playwrights from across the U.S., offering audiences a front-row seat to the development of tomorrow’s theatre.
Experience ten new plays from the 2023 La MaMa Umbria Playwright Retreat at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, June 21-23.
viBe Theater Experience's Board of Directors have announced the appointment of Beryl Briane Ford and Michelan Le'Monier as the organization's new Executive Co-Directors. The organization has been under their interim leadership in this capacity since November 2021, and viBe's Board unanimously approved their permanent appointments in March 2022.
Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has selected its four finalists for the 2022 Premiere Play Festival. Now in its 17th year, the Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights with strong affiliations to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware. This year's finalists were selected from 655 submissions.
Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has announced the 2022 Premiere Play Festival Semi-Finalists.
Center Theatre Group has selected participants for the 2021-2022 L.A. Writers' Workshop, where local playwrights are invited to spend a year in residence at the company researching and writing new works with the feedback from artistic staff and their fellow writers.
American Blues Theater, under the continued leadership of Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside, announces a virtual reading of the winner of the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Refugee Rhapsody by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Kaiser Ahmed.
Now streaming online, Changemakers, a collection of 20 original, two-minute plays and musicals inspired by community leaders, activists, and front-line workers who have fought for change over the course of the past year.
Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has announced the names of seven playwrights who will participate in the company's 2021 Playwrights Lab.
American Blues Theater has announced the winner of the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award is Refugee Rhapsody by Yussef El Guindi. A staged reading of his play will be presented as part of the virtual 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.
This weekend (July 11-12) in live streaming: Audra McDonald sings with Seth Rudetsky, Andrea Burns takes over at Stars in the House and so much more!
The Alternative Theater Company presents BELIEVEABILITY, the July 12th Second Virtual Reading in a series of 10-minute original plays that explore the subject of faith from refreshing and relevant points of view.
New Jersey Theatre Alliance has announced the launch of Stages Online. Stages Online is a digital platform for audiences to engage with virtual opportunities from New Jersey's professional theatres within the safety of their homes.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will present its annual Meet the Artist new play reading series on Wednesdays, May 6, 13, and 20. All readings will take place on Zoom, and require advance registration.
PRIMARY STAGES announced today additional programming for Primary Plus, a series of online programs aimed at helping artists connect with Primary Stages and with each other. For additional details about each program and the most up-to-date information please visit primarystages.org/explore/primary-plus.
CBS today announced the six writers selected to participate in the 2019-2020 Writers Mentoring Program. Since its inception in 2004, the program has served to provide mentorships, access and opportunity for writers.
'Assassin Behind the Glass' is a contemporary urban story that questions whether 'snitching' is an honorable virtue, a death sentence, or perhaps a little bit of both.
'As artists, we have to respond; we have to say something...' chandra thomas, an actor-writer-producer, made that statement to a friend after the 2016 election during the heightening spike in hate and violence against marginalized people in this country.
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