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All of the betrayal, passion, and poetry of Shakespeare’s most famous play—distilled into just 75 minutes. Watch the video trailer for Short Shakespeare! Hamlet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Theater aficionados will be able to enjoy eight one-act plays from the comfort of their homes and pick the one they liked best, thanks to The Theater Project's thirteenth annual Think Fast, a virtual competition.

Abingdon Theatre Company has announced the lineup for Raise the Page, Uplift the Word: A BIPOC Festival of Short Plays in collaboration with AMT Theater. Learn more about the event here!

Be Bold! Productions has revealed the selected works for its 14th Annual LUV Short Play and Musical Festival. The festival centers on love in its many forms and will feature fifteen original short plays presented over three weeks at Players Theatre.

Submissions are open for Red Bull Theater's 16th Short New Play Festival 2026- Refinished. Six brand new 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes inspired by this year’s theme, “Refinished,” will be selected.

The pioneering company is back at The Gaiety Theatre in Ayr for a third consecutive year – presenting half a dozen specially-commissioned short productions.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced the cast for Short Shakespeare! Hamlet, an original and accessible 75-minute adaptation directed by CST Artistic Director Edward Hall.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1986 film Stand by Me, original stars Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, and Wil Wheaton are hitting the road for live dates in Spring 2026.

TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices! will return in a new on-demand edition featuring four short plays adapted for virtual performance. The yearly fundraising event will showcase a broad ensemble of theater artists, with tickets offered as tax-deductible donations.

In celebration of the centennial birthday of Dick Van Dyke, PBS is releasing a new documentary film chronicling the life and career of the Emmy, Tony and Grammy-winning star. Watch the trailer now.

The Theater Project, an incubator for new work and rising artists, has opened for submissions to its thirteenth annual THINK FAST festival of short plays, which will take place online next year.

Short+Sweet Hollywood will return for its seventh season this fall, running October 17 through November 23, 2025, at the Victory Theater in Burbank. Festival Director Ashley Karp will once again lead the event, which will showcase a wide range of ten-minute plays created by both returning and new artists.

Hennepin Arts has announced that Steve Martin and Martin Short are returning to Minneapolis in 2026 in The Best of Steve Martin and Martin Short with very special guests Jeff Babko and The Steep Canyon Rangers.

Concord Theatricals has announced the six winning plays of the 2025 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, which will be published by Samuel French in the 50th Off Off Broadway Festival Plays anthology. The winning playwrights were selected from over 750 submissions worldwide.

Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press have announced Kemuel DeMoville as the winner of the June 2025 Go Try PlayWrite Contest for his short play You Can Feel It All the Way into the Core of Your Being. They Give Birth Astride of a Grave, the Light Gleams an Instant, then it's Night Once More.

Ben Stiller is directing and producing the new documentary film Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, about his parents: comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

Ahead of the season premiere of Match Game this week, Tony Award winner Martin Short chatted with Good Morning America about the show, also reacting to his latest Emmy nomination for Only Murders in the Building. Watch the interview!

This summer, the stage is set for bold voices and fresh stories at EAG's Midsummer Short Play Festival! Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Playwright Rishi Varma has announced the cast for his eco-gothic drama, Sulfur Bottom, which is coming to The Jerry Orbach Theater. Learn more about the show here!

Be Bold! Productions has announced the Week One winner of the 14th annual Players Theatre Short Play Festival – NYC, which opened last weekend in the West Village.

Red Bull Theater has revealed the winning selections for Red Bull’s SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2025. Learn more about the festival and see how to attend upcoming performances.

Be Bold! Productions will present the 14th annual Short Play Festival. The tri-annual short play festival will host 15 original short plays each weekend for four days. Learn more!

Short+Sweet Sydney – the world's largest short play festival will continue this week Fri 9 to Sun 11 May with an all-singing, dancing bite-sized selection of tasty treats!   Learn more here!

The Missouri Coalition for the Environment and That Uppity Theatre Company collaborated to produce PLAYS FOR THE PLANET, a program of 9 short vignettes to increase awareness about current climate issues. The hour-long program was directed by That Uppity Theatre Company’s Joan Lipkin and St. Louis based directors Sami Ginoplos and Bekah Harbison.  

Readings of four short plays by women writers will recognize Yam HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in an event to be presented by Remember the Women Institute. Learn more.