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 ...

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 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 ...

With less than a week to go before Ma Rridx Immur hits the stage, Iggy Fenech speaks to author Leanne Ellul about her award-winning script and theatre productions in our native language. Ruth Borg in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since performing skits with her middle school mother-daughter book club, Communication sophomore Natalie Welber has always had a love for reading. Now the literary manager of Lipstick Theatre, ...

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 ...

Got a script you'd like to see onstage? The Overtime Theater would like to see it. Got an idea or an incomplete play script that you're not quite sure what to do with? It's interested in that, too.