Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at @sohotheatre WALTHAMSTOW. All levels of experience welcome. Pls share.
We’re about to significantly expand our offer to playwrights everywhere. And all you need to do is send us your play.
You don’t need to convince us you’re a writer, you just need to write. @royalcourt
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41% of state schools now have no GCSE drama at all.
Creativity has collapsed in eduction over the last decade, despite the last remaining teachers striving to keep arts accessible to all kids, not just lucky kids.
This #WorldTheatreDay let’s keep the pressure on to fulfil the government’s pledge to restore arts to the core curriculum
Everyone in this video is a completely brilliant playwright. If you know a young person in London who you suspect would write a great play, please share.
@TheatreRites @LittleATheatre@string_theatre#Etties TYA Finalist: Romeo and Juliet @polkatheatre@BeatsElements show is "a piece of genre-bending musical theatre that works across all communities, bringing seemingly highbrow Shakespearean text and plot to the audience that it was always meant for"
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Brian Murphy was an important player in Joan Littlewood’s theatre workshop company when I joined in 1972. He was an inspiration. Always kind and always brilliant and so very funny. My condolences to Linda and his family.
📢 Applications are now open for our 2025 OT Writers' Collective!
If you're a mid-career playwright looking to share practice, build networks, gain industry insights, and develop new ideas, we'd love to hear from you.
Find out more below 👇
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The Stage 100: Children’s Theatre and Young People – Click to find out about the trailblazers in children's theatre in this year's #TheStage100 list, including @theeggbath's @katecross1 and @Unicorn_Theatre's Rachel Bagshaw👇
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“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that... We're all going to be fine at the end of the story.” — David Lynch
#TheStage100 is here!
Now in its 28th year, The Stage 100, supported by Plann, charts the changing face (and faces) of UK theatre, recognising the most influential people working in the sector today.
Discover this year's list in the thread below 👇
Merry Christmas! As I've done for past few years, have opened DMs for anyone who fancies a chat over the next few days. Lots of people tell me they're doing Christmas solo this year, v common in our industry.
Lets talk trivia, gossip, anything! But PLEASE don't send me a play!😭
Big News for #Offies2025 🏆
Starting 2025, The OffWestEnd Awards are abolishing all categories.
The winners of these awards will be named at the prestigious Offies Ceremony, with an exciting announcement to come.
Are you a young writer with a story to tell? Then send us your play!
Enter our Young Playwrights Award for the chance to see your idea performed on the Royal Court stage by professional actors.
Here's writer and performer, Sabrina Ali, to tell you more.