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Peter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into extraordinary drama, dies aged 86

Beginning his career as an actor, Gill went on to write plays including The York Realist as well as directing for the Royal Court and National TheatreTributes have been paid to the...

Rural Life

You may think you’ve never heard of the acclaimed British playwright, Jez Butterworth. However, his raucously funny, as well as violent and shocking plays, have … Continue reading ...

American accountant brings debut play to Edinburgh

Parkies - a drama that throws up as many questions about the workplace and big business as it does about human relationships – is Ross Allen’s first play and he is bringing it to t...

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Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty

Gill’s dramas of divided class loyalties such as The York Realist had a clear-eyed precision matched by his rigorous work as a directorPeter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary li...

Tributes paid to 'quietly seismic' theatre director and playwright Peter Gill

Gill performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on a successful directing career.

New theater festival opens call for Filipino plays, musicals

Filipino playwrights are being invited to submit original one-act works for a new theater festival that will develop selected pieces for live production and provide further opportu...

Review: An Ode to the Casting Director, Assembly George Square

A play that showcases the highs, lows and absurdities of trying to make it as an actor  The post Review: An Ode to the Casting Director, Assembly George Square appeared first on Ev...

Veteran Bengali playwright Chandan Sen’s play holds up a mirror to autocracy and shrinking freedom

‘Ak Nayok-er Sesh Raat’ explores how authoritarianism can survive even under a democratically elected government

5 Questions with Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher

A screenwriter for Columbo and the mind behind a 2021 Dial M for Murder adaptation, his latest play, The Butler Did It, builds upon his mystery legacy.

From Script to Stage: Here’s How to Join Puregold Teatro Panalo

For playwrights dreaming of seeing their masterworks on stage, Puregold Teatro Panalo may be their portal to the

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

And all the players players, apart from one Orange Twat....

Theatre Prometheus announces cast and crew of ‘Where Dead Women Go to Dance’

World premiere by DC-based playwright Stephen Spotswood runs September 25-October 17 at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center.

The Scottish actor recreating paintings by female artists live on stage

The play is Kara Wilson’s sixth about a female painter

How To Do Trans, Aspec Shakespeare

By Beks Roen. Beks Roen, a nonbinary, aromantic, asexual actor who often performs in Shakespearen plays, reflects on how they have made space for their identities in classical thea...

Emerging voices in 10-Minute Play Festival at Colonial Players of Annapolis

Eight new plays by local artists showcase storytelling, collaboration, and talent.  By JULIA TUCKER

Wexford Arts Centre to host new play from one of the south east's emerging theatrical voices

Playwright Examples: 14 Runnable Scripts in JS and Python

Fourteen Playwright script examples in JavaScript and Python, each executed against a live page: forms, dropdowns, iframes, tables, mocking, and auth reuse.

Tom Stoppard: Conservative, Liberal, Englishman

Britain’s late leading playwright existed in the realm of literature, beyond pat political agendas. The post Tom Stoppard: Conservative, Liberal, Englishman appeared first on The A...

8 plays, 1 reality: Bicol theater unpacks hard-hitting local issues

Unflinching and raw, this Bicol theater festival uses culinary metaphors to expose bitter realities in some of the region’s provinces

Acclaimed, Controversial Play ‘Downstate’ Gets Broadway Marquee; Scott Rudin Reportedly Producing With Joe Mantello Dire...

The marquee at Broadway’s Booth Theatre appears to confirm the rumors: Bruce Norris’ acclaimed and controversial play Downstate will take up residence at the venue in an upcoming p...

Side Characters Shenanigans in a HAMLET Send-Up

Side characters take center stage in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's Hamlet send-up.

A Shostakovich play comes to the London stage

The Park Theatre, which has staged quite a... The post A Shostakovich play comes to the London stage appeared first on Slippedisc.

THE STORY Olivier, SE1

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE, OR HANG ON A MINUTE..          Everyone (especially journalists) loves a drama about  newspapers.  Hot-tempered rackety bantering , stories urgently chased, ri...