King Charles III and Antony Sher triumph at Critics' Circle Theatre Awards

Mike Bartlett's King Charles III wins Best New Play at the 2015 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, while Antony Sher wins Best Shakespearean Performance

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NHB authors scoop playwriting categories at Writers' Guild Awards

Rona Munro and Evan Placey win Best Play and Best Play for Young Audiences respectively at the 2015 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards

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The James Plays named Best New Play at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Rona Munro's vividly imagined trilogy takes home the prize at 60th Evening Standard Theatre Awards - get the script now at 30% off plus free UK p&p

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Actions app - now on sale at special launch price

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus, the first app designed for use in the rehearsal room and based on the bestselling book, is now available for iOS devices at the special launch price of £4.99

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West End Producer: ‘Traditions and superstitions’

Fri, 13 Feb 2015
Though they’re perfectly sensible, sane and rational in every other possible way, theatre folk are a rather superstitious lot. So to mark this Friday 13th, theatre impresario and masked Twitter phenomenon West End Producer – who was himself born onstage during a performance of Titus Andronicus - delves into the murky, sometimes confusing world of […]

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Dymphna Callery: we need a more playful approach to staging plays

Thu, 8 Jan 2015
Dymphna Callery’s Through the Body: A practical guide to physical theatre is beloved of a generation of drama students. But have we ghetto-ised ‘physical theatre’ in an unhelpful way? In her new book published today, The Active Text, she looks at how physical theatre techniques can be used to unlock scripted plays, and inject new […]

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West End Producer: ‘Let’s talk about panto’

Mon, 15 Dec 2014
Ho ho ho, dears, ho ho ho. Taken from his book Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Acting, theatre impresario and Twitter phenomenon West End Producer gives you the lowdown on the festive theatrical staple that is pantomime, and tells you how to survive one… Once a year a great theatrical tradition is practised […]

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