Roy Williams News

Fuel Director, Kate McGrath confirmed more projects to take place in 2018 in the UK and beyond.

17-year-old Alice Schofield from CAPA College in Wakefield, has won the National Theatre's annual playwriting competition for 14 - 19-year-olds, New Views.

Victory Gardens Theater concludes its 43rd season with Mies Julie, written by Yael Farber, directed by Dexter Bullard, and adapted from August Strindberg's Miss Julie. Mies Julie runs May 25 - June 24, 2018, with the press performance on Friday, June 1, 2018 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue.

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, is asking members of the public to help verify the names of the 492 migrant passengers aboard the Empire Windrush as part of Windrush: 492. 

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, today announces its full programme for the 2018 festival, running from 21 June - 7 July in locations across Royal Greenwich, Royal Docks and Tower Hamlets. Audiences are invited to 'dream a little dream' over 17 midsummer days of outdoor theatre and performance, in which public spaces are transformed with more than 130 performances celebrating dreams of love, struggle, ambition and flight.

National Theatre Wales will celebrate the National Health Service's 70th birthday in July 2018 with a month-long, multi-artform NHS70 Festival, inspired by the staff and patients of this unique institution. This country-wide Festival will feature productions and events made and performed in locations across Wales, all celebrating one of Wales' best exports.

Today, Lorna Lee, winner of Best Local Authority Arts Champion - Officer; and Plymouth City Council, winner of Best Local Authority Arts Initiative for their project I.AM.NOT.A.ROBOT, will be presented with their Hearts for the Arts Awards in front of the largest gathering of councillors and officers involved with culture, tourism and sport.

Artistic Directors of Paines Plough James Grieve and George Perrin today announced the company's full Programme 2018.

The shortlist has been announced for the National Campaign for the Arts' (NCA) Hearts For The Arts Awards 2018. The awards celebrate the work of Councils, Councillors and Council Officers who have overcome financial challenges to ensure the arts stay at the centre of community life.

Today the Royal Court Theatre releases the first episode in Series 2 of the Playwright's Podcast, S2: E1 Simon Stephens talks to Alice Birch.

Hampstead Theatre today announces three new Hampstead Downstairs productions; the candidates for Inspire: The Next Playwright programme; and its continued partnership with the Sphinx Theatre Company.

The winner of Theatre503's international playwriting award, and the first show directed by Lisa Spirling since taking over as Artistic Director themes of space, time, feminism and sex collide in this astonishing debut play by Andrew Thompson. Take a first look at the show below!

The winner of Theatre503's international playwriting award, and the first show directed by Lisa Spirling since taking over as Artistic Director - themes of space, time, feminism and sex collide in this astonishing debut play by AnDrew Thompson. Check out photos from rehearsals below!

Yesterday a major symposium was held at The RSA at which leading British playwrights discussed how theatre should respond to and reflect the changing international role of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Europe over the next decade. Scroll down for photos and footage from the event!

Casting has been announced for Andrew Thompson's debut play, winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award and the first show to be directed by Lisa Spirling since she took over as Artistic Director.

Atlantic Theater Company presents the New York premiere of Tony and Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens' (Harper Regan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) Olivier Award winning play On the Shore of the Wide World, directed by Neil Pepe (Marie and Rosetta, Hands on a Hardbody).

Collaborating with three partner venues across the United Kingdom, Royal & Derngate Northampton is launching an epic cycle of new play commissions exploring Great Britain and Northern Ireland's changing relationship with Europe.

Atlantic Theater Company will present Asian American Mixfest, a series of free readings co-produced by playwrights Lloyd Suh and Qui Nguyen that will run Today, August 9 through Thursday, August 17 at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street).

The full casts are today announced for English Touring Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Rose Theatre Kingston's production of Sam Holcroft's Rules for Living and English Touring Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester's production of Conor McPherson's The Weir, twenty years after its world premiere at the Royal Court.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced complete casting for the New York premiere of Tony and Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens' (Harper Regan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) Olivier Award winning play On the Shore of the Wide World, directed by Neil Pepe (Marie and Rosetta, Hands on a Hardbody).