In case you missed it, 89 more plays in translation from @methuendrama.bsky.social are now live on Drama Online!
The Global Plays Collection 2 offers work by dramatists spanning 5 continents and 14 countries, including Iraq, Spain, South Africa, Cuba, and Japan: bit.ly/4qhhHdH
You may know Lucy Prebble as a writer for the hit series Succession, but did you know she has also written 4 plays?
Discover Prebble’s work in the theatre with a new introduction by Paulette Marty, including 3 free-to-read scenes: https://bit.ly/413VUgA
Discover 85 eBooks for theatre careers covering acting, directing, stagecraft, theatre management, arts marketing and more in the Acting and Practical Theatre Guides collection.
Find out more now: https://bit.ly/4pGwTSg
As the Harlem Renaissance meets the bite of the Great Depression, a group of friends try hard to keep their dreams alive.
Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky with Samira Wiley and Giles Terera is available in the National Theatre Collection 4: https://bit.ly/3Vth0AQ
Explore Bloomsbury's English and Drama for Schools 2026 Catalogue to discover the new books and plays coming out this year!
Read the digital catalogue here: https://bit.ly/46eUOQP
Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison tells the true story of a shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.
Read an extract now alongside an exclusive essay as part of our new featured content: https://bit.ly/413VUgA
The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D. Clarke and Hugh Skinner is streaming now in the National Theatre Collection 4!
Discover this acclaimed reimagining of Oscar Wilde's celebrated comedy, available for institutional free trials: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ
In case you missed it, the Critical Studies and Performance Practice collection includes practical titles on theatre craft, plus 60 actor training videos to help students prepare for careers in the theatre.
Discover what’s on offer: https://bit.ly/3RNe0y0
89 more plays in translation from @methuendrama.bsky.social are now live on Drama Online!
The Global Plays Collection 2 offers work by dramatists spanning 5 continents and 14 countries, including Iraq, Spain, South Africa, Cuba, and Japan: https://bit.ly/4qhhHdH
Explore a scene from Lucy Prebble’s Enron, which follows the real life story of the American energy company’s corruption, greed, and eventual downfall.
The scene is available alongside a new exclusive essay in our featured content: https://bit.ly/413VUgA
Did you know that you can now access all of Shakespeare's plays and The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language in one digital space?
Watch the intro video or click here to find out more about The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language: bit.ly/3WUHfkr
Ken Rea's The Outstanding Actor: Actor Training Workshop includes 10 masterclass videos, giving students an opportunity to learn first-hand from the best.
Kickstart your acting students’ learning, from exploring physicality through to developing charisma: https://bit.ly/4qaRttn
Read an extract from The Sugar Syndrome now, part of our exclusive featured content on Lucy Prebble.
The Sugar Syndrome focusses on Dani, a 17-year-old girl with an eating disorder, who is repeatedly let down by the society she finds herself in. Read now: https://bit.ly/413VUgA
Support your students as they develop their practical theatre skills with 72 guides covering acting, directing, lighting, design & makeup, theatre management, dance and more.
Explore the Focal Press Theatre Books collection now: https://bit.ly/4a7DeQU
Discover playwright Lucy Prebble with a new introduction by Paulette Marty, including 3 free-to-read scenes.
Tackling subjects from mental illness to corporations and criminal corruption, Prebble’s plays interrogate contemporary society. Read now: https://bit.ly/413VUgA
Covering everything from Hammerstein and Sondheim to Wicked and The Book of Mormon, the Musical Theatre Studies collection launches in June, with eBooks from Methuen Drama and Rowman & Littlefield's renowned Applause, Limelight, & Scarecrow Press imprints: https://bit.ly/49ovp8a
Contemporary Australian Drama: The Playlab Theatre Collection launches in June 2026 with over 270 plays by writers from a variety of backgrounds, particularly from LGBTQ+ and First Nations writers, from classic to modern plays and plays for young people: https://bit.ly/4so2BFz
89 more plays in translation from @methuendrama.bsky.social are joining Drama Online in February 2026!
The Global Plays Collection 2 offers work by dramatists spanning 5 continents and 14 countries, including Iraq, Spain, South Africa, Cuba, and Japan: https://bit.ly/4qeMfgp
Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir The Years charts a woman’s life in post-war Europe, recently performed in the West End to 5-star reviews.
The playtext is now live on Drama Online in the Nick Hern Books collection: https://bit.ly/3Utc8vk
Break-ups aren't just about who gets the CD collection… Otherland by Chris Bush is a bold, genre-smashing exploration of gender identity, and a finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
The playtext is now live in the Nick Hern Books collection: https://bit.ly/3Utc8vk
Amy Jephta's funny and provocative play A Good House explores race, resentment and community politics, as it follows the mysterious construction of a shack in the quaint suburban community of Stillwater. Now in the Nick Hern Books collection: https://bit.ly/3Utc8vk
Mark Rosenblatt’s searing debut play about Roald Dahl and antisemitism won 2025’s Olivier and Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Play.
Giant is now live in the Nick Hern Books collection on Drama Online: https://bit.ly/3Utc8vk
Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology edited by Caridad Svich explores pieces made during the pandemic for hybrid and audio performance, including podcasts, multi-location theatre and interactive livestream. Now in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
Naomi Wallace's And I and Silence explores the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950s segregated America, following two imprisoned young women.
The play is now part of the Core Collection on Drama Online: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language is now live! 🎭
With The Arden Shakespeare Third Series of plays alongside The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, you can now easily shift between plays and meanings in one digital space: bit.ly/3WUHfkr
Discover David Hare’s adaptation of The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, in which aging genius Halvard meets mysterious young woman Hilde in a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death.
Now available in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
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Hot Chicks is contemporary Welsh theatre at its sharpest, following teenagers Ruby and Kyla as they dream of travelling to Vegas and going viral – but at what price?
Rebecca Jade Hammond’s play is now live in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
Text reads: Drama Online: Curtain Up! Join us for a webinar walkthrough of this world-class, one-stop solution to all your theatre teaching, learning and research needs. Tuesday November 18th, 2025. 11:00 - 11:30am EST or 4:00 - 4:30pm GMT
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