Lucy Prebble's THE EFFECT, a play examining love and brain chemistry through two clinical trial participants, will be staged at Thymele Arts in Hollywood, directed by Braden Lynch and Tristan McDaniel.
The Pulitzer-Prize winning play Primary Trust will serve as the first Virginia Repertory Theatre production opening in 2026. Performances take place Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays at 7:00 PM, select Saturdays at 2PM, Sundays at 3PM, and select Wednesday evenings and matinees.
The Ensemble Company, the repertory theatre company in residence at Imagine Performing Arts Center, will begin its eighth season with Lucy Prebble’s play, The Effect.
Ipswich playwright Martha Loader has been awarded the 2025 George Devine Award for her play The Town, which confronts how an act of societal transgression impacts the lives of those orbiting it.
EastLine Theatre will return to the BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst this December with the Long Island premiere of A Very Expensive Poison by Emmy-winning playwright Lucy Prebble.
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed this year's finalists for the prestigious international playwriting award- the largest and oldest award recognising women+ writers for plays of outstanding quality written for the English-speaking theatre.
The George Devine Award has revealed its 2025 Shortlist of four playwrights. Formed in 1966 in memory of the Royal Court’s founding Artistic Director George Devine, the Award is recognised as one of the most prestigious in new writing.
From an Emmy-winning writer of HBO’s Succession, this love-and-science thriller places audiences inside a clinical trial where two volunteers sign up to test a dopamine-regulating drug under observation.
We are delighted to report that real fringe theatre is back. The invigorating, daring, challenging, form-subverting kind of venture that makes the stage its playground. We haven’t encountered anything like this since before Covid. There isn’t a lot of theatre with specifically scientific research as its core, either. Commercially, The Effect (Lucy Prebble’s play about a clinical trial) had a revival in 2023 with Jamie Lloyd at the helm and Caryl Churchill’s evergreen reflection on human-cloning, A Number, was on just the year before (curiously, both starred Paapa Essiedu). Looking away from the West End, it’s even harder to find something that sits firmly at the junction with science. Three Billion Letters swoops in at the rescue and begs you to think. Created by TAKDAJA, the piece is a heady mix of data and experimentalism. Does our DNA control more than our eye colour and predisposition to illness? How do we determine our identity? There’s so much gene-ius in it.
Wessex Grove has announced that Ben Power has joined the company in a consulting capacity as Creative Associate. Learn more about Power and his new position here.
Tom Glynn-Carney will play George Deever and Hayley Squires will play Ann Deever in Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS, directed by Ivo Van Hove.
ArtsWest will present THE EFFECT by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), directed by Producing Artistic Director, Mathew Wright. The cast features Sunam Ellis, Tim Gouran, Anna Mulia, and Morgan Gwilym Tso.
Bryan Cranston will star as ‘Joe Keller', Marianne Jean-Baptiste as ‘Kate Keller' and Paapa Essiedu as ‘Chris Keller' in Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS. Learn more about the show here!
The 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been given to U.S. playwright a.k. payne for their play Furlough's Paradise. Awarded annually since 1978, the prestigious international Prize is the largest and oldest award recognizing women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
Good Night, and Good Luck is now in previews on Broadway, The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, stars Clooney in his Broadway debut. Meet the cast here!
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced this year's finalists for the prestigious international playwriting award. Learn more about the finalists and the award here!
Shaker Bridge Theatre has opened The Effect by Lucy Prebble, the third production in the 17th season. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
The organizers of The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize have announced that the playwriting award will be presented at an invitation-only event on Monday, March 10 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. Learn more here!
Artificial Intelligence, erasure, coercion, faith, unrequited love and social housing amongst subjects explored within the five shortlisted plays announced as contenders for the 2024 George Devine Award.
It’s fun to say that romantic love is a matter of chemistry - fun, that is, as long as “chemistry” is metaphorical shorthand for the qualities and quirks that, when brought together, ignite emotions that feel like alchemy. But what if personal chemistry is not figurative, but literal: a combination of controlled substances and their effects that can be created in a laboratory as easily as on a date?
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