Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Play On Shakespeare expands its programming by launching new partnerships – including with the ...

This week, San Diego’s Playwrights Project presents its 41st Plays by Young Writers festival, with readings of five plays written by California middle and high school students from San Diego to ...

To inaugurate its new “Unplugged” programming – a format focused on simplicity in design to decrease production costs and to prioritize actors’ pay – Playwrights Horizons, committed to championing the ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

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The historic Cherry Lane Theatre has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker (BFA '03) to launch the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective. This nine-month developmental program offers a small ...

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...

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Capital Stage is now accepting submissions for its 2026 Playwrights’ Revolution new play festival. The program supports the development of full-length, unproduced plays through staged readings in ...

Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

The new collaboration continues the theatre’s history of fostering up-and-coming New York City-based playwrights. As the city’s oldest Off-Broadway theatre, Cherry Lane has hosted early and ...