Writing

Middle Child playwriting festival line-up announced

21 June 2025

Hull's Middle Child theatre company has revealed the programme for its Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival in July 2025.

Sam and Eliza lift musical mentorship award

14 June 2025

Sam Norman and Eliza Randall have won the 2025-26 MTI Stiles + Drewe mentorship award for their musical Echolocation.

SE Fest returns—call out for new writing

1 June 2025

Applications are open until 15 June for SE Fest 2025, a theatre festival based in south east London to promote and celebrate new writing.

Three new shows amplified in Nottingham

22 May 2025

Three new, female-led shows by emerging Midlands writers will be unveiled at Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Seasons: Summer event.

Nine young writers to showcase work in Shropshire

16 May 2025

Rural theatre company Pentabus has unveiled a new production from its young writers’ group, Unfiltered.

Symposium focuses on challenges for NI’s women playwrights

13 May 2025

Front & Centre at Queen’s University Belfast spotlights gender imbalance on Northern Ireland stages.

Theatre Frontier broken in West Cumbria

4 May 2025

A new festival, Theatre Frontier, comes to Rosehill Theatre in Whitehaven.

Pentabus picks eight national young writers

26 April 2025

Shropshire rural theatre company Pentabus has revealed its eight 2025 National Young Writers to create short plays for digital platforms.

New plays in Northampton National Theatre festival

27 March 2025

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate will welcome hundreds of young people to perform in the National Theatre Connections Festival 2025.

Tinderbox reveals details of “cutting edge” Incubate Festival

12 March 2025

Seven theatre-makers to preview new works-in-progress at Belfast’s The Mac.

Writers asked for plays that “pop up” in everyday locations

11 March 2025

East Midlands theatre company Fifth Word is asking writers to produce short plays that can “pop up” outside traditional theatre spaces.

Cathie comes out on top in search for new play

28 February 2025

Malvern Theatres and The Everyman, Cheltenham have selected the winning entry for their inaugural playwriting competition: In Veritas by Cathie Rolinson.

Applications open for young writers course

27 February 2025

Rural theatre company Pentabus has announced that applications are open for National Young Writers 2025, a free online course.

Hippodrome chooses artists for development programme

20 February 2025

Birmingham Hippodrome’s new work and artist development department has announced its first cohort for Hippodrome Origins.

Hippodrome to unveil extracts from new musicals

5 February 2025

Birmingham Hippodrome is inviting audiences to experience a “snippet” of six musical theatre projects in development at its first new musicals showcase.

Artists to get more opportunities to share their work

14 January 2025

Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify artist development programme is to increase the number of opportunities for Midlands artists to share their work.

STR Theatre Book Prize announces judges

26 November 2024

The panel for the 2025 The Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize has been announced.