English Touring Theatre announced a season of five plays, including world premieres of APPLICATION 39, LANNY, and PERICLES, alongside a new production of ROMEO AND JULIET, touring venues across the UK.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 5, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
The Royal Court Theatre announced six winners of its Young Playwrights Award 2026, the first cohort since the programme expanded nationwide. The winning plays will be performed as rehearsed readings at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs and published by Nick Hern Books.
Tom Ryalls' This Book Is Short: A Toolkit for Creative ADHDers is a refreshingly honest, practical and deeply compassionate guide that understands both the possibilities and the frustrations of living and creating with ADHD. Rather than presenting itself as a definitive solution, the book offers a flexible collection of tools, reflections and strategies that encourage readers to discover what works for them.
The shortlists for the 2026 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland which have been released today, Thursday May 7
East Midlands theatre company New Perspectives announced 14 early- and mid-career artists for its New Associates programme, now in its seventh year, supporting artists in a historically underfunded region.
“This book is about portraying a safe and dramatically effective staged fight using rapier and dagger,” so begins Roger Bartlett’s latest volume. From the large-scale battles in The Lord of the Rings to the intimate denouement in a production of Hamlet at your local theatre, stage combat is as essential a character as a protagonist can be. A badly choreographed sword fight can shatter even the tightest dramatic illusion. This is the chance to learn the best technique directly from a Master Teacher who’s accredited with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat.
Theatre publishers and performing rights agents Nick Hern Books have announced that 2:22 - A Ghost Story by Danny Robins will be available for amateur performance within the UK from 1 August 2026 to 31 December 2027.
Nick Hern Books has launched 'Playground', a new initiative aimed at providing financial and practical support to UK playwrights. This program includes the NHB New Play Commissions, which will fund new works by established playwrights.
See the Corn Exchange Newbury transformed into the Wild Wood as their Infant and Junior Youth Theatre present The Wind in the Willows. Learn more here!
The Critics' Circle has announced the nominations for the 2026 Theatre Awards, highlighting outstanding theatrical achievements.
At a time when cuts to playwriting are impacting ever harder, Papatango is launching a major remodelling of their industry-leading Papatango New Writing Prize to respond to the growing need to foster and support new writing.
Queer Theatre will return this year with its newly announced award-winning guest playwrights for its monthly Queer Play Reading Club, delivered in partnership with Nick Hern Books.
You Stupid Darkness is coming to 21ten Theatre next month. Performances run February 5th - March 1st 2026. Learn more about the upcoming production here!
Nick Hern Books is set to publish the complete scripts to the multi-award-winning Netflix television series Adolescence, presented alongside exclusive behind-the-scenes material, on 27 November.
If there is one message that those who were in attendance at More Than One Story LIVE on 9 November absorbed through their skin, it is that “The arts don’t belong to a few, they belong to everyone.” The sentiment was declared proudly by Rory Kinnear in his opening speech and echoed warmly by co-host Shahab Awad, actor and member of Cardboard Citizens. It was sprinkled, allegorised, and spoken boldly throughout the monologues that were presented.
The announcement details an entire year of programming for 2026, with 12 productions across the venue's two historic stages, alongside new national projects and partnerships to drive investment and ambition for the next decade of new writing in the UK.
Director Maren Maclean Mascarelli has assembled a remarkable cast in an intense retelling of Orwell's classic.
Outside Edge Theatre Company and Nick Hern Books will present the return of Script Club, following a successful first season in 2024-2025. Learn more and see how to join!
Stars of stage and screen will unite to celebrate the publication of a brand new book from the award-winning arts and social justice charity, Cardboard Citizens.
