Before “lights, camera, action!” there are playwrights, scripts, directors and actors. Yakima Valley College Drama Department’s Festival of New Works will be April 20-22, 2023, showcasing short plays ...

Step into a fast-paced, sharply written evening of original one-act plays — four powerful stories, each under 20 minutes, packed with humor, heart, and humanity. From a tense confessional to a chaotic ...

And, most proved to be “ready for their close-ups” with their first-time audiences, displaying an overall range of talent and creativity (by both playwrights and performers) that was unmistakable. But ...

PITTSFIELD, MASS. — In only 13 years, the Barrington Stage Company’s short play festival, “10×10”, has become one of the most anticipated theatre events of the winter. You have until March 10 to find ...

Six brand new 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes inspired by this year's theme, “Defiance,” will be selected through an open submission process. These selections will premiere ...

After an unexpected COVID-caused delay of three years, Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre is offering its annual 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival. Judging by the close-to-sold-out shows, it’s apparent local ...

Huzzah! The second week’s artistic lineup of six more brand new plays at EXIT Theatre Arcata’s Short Play Festival more than lived up to the quality level of those performed during the opening weekend ...

Fatima Naeem is a writer of sorts from Pakistan who has over five years of writing experience under her belt, and a completely accidental physics degree (because come on, no one plans these things, ...

Is it too soon to explore the pandemic through art? Not if you’re Suzan-Lori Parks, who wrote a short play a day while sitting at home for 13 months and has now turned those into a full-length ...

Michel Hausmann, cofounder and artistic director of Miami New Drama, is an artistic innovator whose mind is often aswirl with ideas about how to get broader audiences even half as excited about ...