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This March, The Act will be screened as part of BFI Flare, a festival to showcase the best new LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world, as part of their Hearts' Desires short film programme.

Box of Tricks and Sky Studios have announced that the two winners of the inaugural Screen/Play Award are Conway McDermott and Sarah Tarbit. Each writer will be awarded £10,250 to write a 70-minute stage play and a 20-minute screenplay inspired by a single central idea to be developed with support from the two partners throughout 2021.

A new writing programme, launched by theatre production company HOW NOW BROWN COW, will encourage the creation of twelve new works by South African playwrights. 

This year, The Theatre Centre is embarking on what may be the most ambitious year of creation in its history. They will be supporting an unprecedented 16 projects led by 20 artists; creating two new development streams and more.

The Broadway Podcast network will celebrate Pride month with a special section of the website highlighting a variety of programming to mark the occasion.

Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents The OUTwright Theatre Festival, centering our trans and gender nonconforming communities, June 24-28 7pm each night on Facebook & Instagram.

The King's Head Theatre, Making Productions, RGM Productions and Suzanne Jones in association with DeVere Productions present the return of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean to Trafalgar Studios 2.

The King's Head Theatre, Making Productions and RGM Productions have announced the full cast for the return of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean to Trafalgar Studios 2.

Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in association with The Constellation Project will present the World Premiere of ray gun say0nara, a sci-fi play with songs written by Steven Mark Tenney, directed by Janet Bentley at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street New York, NY 10014), December 4-22. Performances will be on Wednesday, December 4 at 7pm, Thursday, December 5 at 7pm, Saturday, December 7 at 3pm, Sunday, December 8 at 7pm, Monday, December 9 at 7pm, Wednesday, December 11 at 7pm, Saturday, December 14 at 7pm, Sunday, December 15 at 3pm, Monday, December 16 at 7pm, Friday, December 20 at 7pm, Saturday, December 21 at 3pm, and Sunday, December 22 at 3pm.

Being a 20-something queer is hard. Being a 20-something queer living in Sydney is… something else, I guess.

Corkscrew Theater Festival, which runs July 10-August 3, inaugurates its Corkscrew Downstairs series of workshop productions this summer in the lower level theater at the Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street, Manhattan). The four projects all take classic texts as a starting point, including A Doll's House, Twelfth Night, the poetry of Walt Whitman, and Leslie Feinberg's 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. The Downstairs series shares one team of designers -Dan Daly (sets), Christina Tang (lights), and Cinthia Chen (props)-and one flexible repertory set, deepening the festival's focus on exploring collaboration in different forms.

Today, The Trevor Project announced that GRAMMY-Award winning multi-platinum singer/songwriter Daya and the cast of the Broadway musical, The Prom, will perform at the organization's TrevorLIVE New York gala in New York City on Monday, June 17 at Cipriani Wall Street. The organization also announced that Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness will present Cara Delevingne with the 2019 Hero Award, and actor Jonathan Tucker will present Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos with the Champions Award.

New York-based Houses on the Moon Theater Company and Mumbai-based Anekant Productions are proud to present the second installment of The Q Story Stream, a series of storytelling performances in Los Angeles and Mumbai, India in which live, true stories from queer storytellers in each city are presented. With the help of livestreaming and recorded video, LA-based artists are presented alongside storytellers from halfway across the planet. The performance in Los Angeles will take place on Thursday, June 20th at 8pm at Art Share L.A., located at 801 E. 4th Pl., Los Angeles.

May is Lower East Side History Month, and Queer|Art is the new kid on the LES block, having recently relocated their offices from Nolita to the East Village this past year. Heralding their arrival to the neighborhood, they've organized four days of programming throughout May to celebrate the queer past, present, and future of their beloved new East Village home.

Orpheus Productions will present three performances of a workshop presentation of Shakespeare's Criminal, a new chamber opera with music by Dustin Peters and libretto by Sky Gilbert, starring Marion Newman, Dion Mazerolle and Nathaniel Bacon, April 26-28, 2019 at Factory.

The King's Head Theatre, Making Productions and RGM Productions are delighted to announce the full cast for the West End transfer of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean.

Koleka Putuma has been announced as the winner of the 2018 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition. The news was announced at an event last night (27 September) following staged readings of scripts by the four finalists this week.

Professional staged readings of their plays will take place on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 September with the winners announced at an event on Thursday 27 September. The venue is the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Methodist Church Hall, corner of Milton Road and Wesley Street, Observatory, Cape Town. Entrance is free.

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA), dedicated to advancing the field of Asian American theater, announces Chicago as the host city for the Sixth National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival (ConFest), to be held August 13 - 18. ConFest Early Bird passes start at $350 and are available at CAATA.net beginning Wednesday, May 16 at 10 a.m.

With Liverpool Pride now just 2 weeks away organisers are happy to reveal a whole host of Pride Community events taking place across the city, with something on offer for all.

Los Angeles-based electronic musician and activist Madame Gandhi (the alias of Kiran Gandhi) has revealed her new single “Top Knot Turn Up,”HERE on which she partners with Brazilian trap artist Ruxell. Madame Gandhi, who first gained recognition as the free-bleeding runner at London's marathon, released her debut Voices EP in 2017, followed by aremix EP last October. The project tapped womxn producers of color and collaborators including Perera Elsewhere, Suzi Analogue, Shiva, Caleb Stone, TT The Artist, and UNIIQU3.

Pride Films and Plays has announced a series of discussions in conjunction with its American premiere of PINK ORCHIDS -  a British play in which five eloquently interwoven and often funny monologues explore the experience of living with HIV from the perspectives of those living with the virus and those who care for and care about HIV+ persons. Staff members from Test Positive Awareness Network (TPAN) and other HIV activists will lead the weekly discussions about living with in a world with HIV - either as someone who has tested positive for the virus or is vulnerable to it. 

Millennial messiah, Brigham Mosley, is regressing.  The world is a Sisyphus-ian nightmare and this drag queen just wants to braid your hair.  Can refuge from the present only be found in the past?  In the tradition of Taylor Mac, Dallas performance artist Brigham Mosley brings drag and drama to Stage West as a special one-night event on Wednesday, June 13 in conjunction with the theatre's production of Hir.

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA), dedicated to advancing the field of Asian American theater, announces Chicago as the host city for the Sixth National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival (ConFest), to be held August 13 - 18. ConFest Early Bird passes start at $350 and are available at CAATA.net.

Casting has been announced for Pride Films and Plays' American premiere of PINK ORCHIDS - the first play of the "PAC Pride Fest" - a summer season of five plays. PINK ORCHIDS, by Patrick Cash, is a British play in which five eloquently interwoven and often funny monologues explore the experience of living with HIV - a virus that attacks the emotions as well as the body. It premiered in London in 2016 under the title THE HIV MONOLOGUES. This production will be directed by Brennan T. Jones and will open to the press on Friday, June 8 at 7:30 pm, in the Pride Arts Center's Buena space. Jones directed JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS for Pride Films and Plays in summer 2017 and was Assistant Director for TimeLine Theatre's THE AUDIENCE last fall.