What's Britain's biggest growth industry? Playwriting, apparently. According to a recent report by Arts Council England, the amount of new writing produced by mainstream, subsidised theatre has more ...

Have you ever thought up an idea for a movie or play that you just know will be a smash hit, but haven't gotten around to writing the script? Alphabet's DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help get ...

Scripts should be at least 75 minutes in length, on any subject or genre, so long as it has not been professionally produced in the past. The scripts will be selected by the play reading committee, ...

With the highly-anticipated opening of “Hamilton: An American Musical” in the summer of 2015, it seemed as if Broadway — and theater as a whole — was taking the first step to combat the highly ...

The lack of theatre scripts dealing with social issues, the shortage of actresses and the need for specialised theatre institutes were discussed in a seminar held here on Thursday. The lack of theatre ...

Polarity Ensemble Theatre–named Best Emerging Theater Company in our June 26 Best of Chicago issue–is inviting Chicago-area playwrights to submit unproduced full-length plays for its Dionysos Cup 2008 ...

The JMK Trust recently announced the list of plays, selected by Nicholas Hytner, from which those applying for The James Menzies-Kitchin young directors' award can propose a new production. The trust ...

Three Brothers Theatre recently staged a reading of Madelyn Sergel’s new play, “Conversations About An Empty Suit,” and the audience who attended the event offered suggestions that inspired her to ...

A friend of mine once described herself as a playwright who doesn’t like plays. She can tell me after she reads this if I’m wrong, but I think what she meant is that, for her, a play is a text, a ...