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 ...

AMT Theater has announced it will be seeking full length scripts to be used as part of its play development series. Scripts should be at least 75 minutes in length, on any subject or genre, so long as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Azzopardi blames theatre practioners that feed off the mantra that culture is “anything that is British”. He also blames the lack of a structure that focuses on the development of new scripts in ...