Tom Powell

Hannah Doran Wins 16th Annual Papatango New Writing Prize With THE MEAT KINGS! (INC.) OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

Papatango has announced that Hannah Doran has won the 16th annual Papatango New Writing Prize for her play The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights, from 1,589 entries – a record number for the Prize, meaning it continues to be the biggest annual playwriting scheme in the UK.

Papatango New Writing Prize Shortlist Revealed

Papatango has announced the shortlisted writers for their 2024 New Writing Prize. Learn more about the shortlist here!

Next Generation Of Rural Artists Release ArtFlicks

Leading rural touring theatre company Pentabus and Hereford-based production company Rural Media are releasing Pentabus National Young Writers ArtFlicks projects. Six young writers, the next generation of rural writing talent, have been mentored and supported by both organisations to each create three 90 second films that will be released across the Art Flicks TikTok Channel.

Pentabus Reveals New Head of Engagement and Administrator

Pentabus has announced the appointment of Joanna Freeman (pictured) as Head of Engagement and Nicola Simcock as Administrator. They join the company in August, working on Pentabus' 50th anniversary season. They join a female-led team at Pentabus.

Pentabus Reveals New Board Members, Including Shakespeare's Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry

Pentabus has announced a new Chair of the Board, Nuala O'Kane, and six new board members.

Pentabus Reveals New Jerwood Foundation Writer in Residence Bursary and Applications Open

Pentabus has announced Jerwood Foundation support for the 2025 Pentabus Writer in Residence Bursary, and the opening of applications.

Full Cast Set For SOME DEMON at the Arcola Theatre

Papatango has announced the full cast for the world première of the 2023 Prize-winning play Some Demon by Laura Waldren – a play focusing on the relationships fostered and fractured when a group of strangers are thrown together in an eating disorder unit.

ASYLUM Arts Announces 2024 Programme Including A UK Tour Of Papatango Prize Winner's Show SURFACING

ASYLUM Arts has announced 2024 program featuring UK Tour of Papatango Prize Winner's show Surfacing. Dive into the latest from this neurodivergent-led theatre company.

Vital Xposure Reveals Stephen Bailey as New Artistic Lead

Leading national and international disabled-led theatre company Vital Xposure has announced the appointment of award-winning neurodivergent director and producer, Stephen Bailey as its new Artistic Lead.

Michael Head Drops New Single 'Shirl's Ghost' With New Album, Memoir & Tour

Fans of his four-decade back catalogue and readers ready for a ride through half a century of popular culture, with Head as their guide, will delight in news that his long-awaited autobiography, Ciao Ciao Bambino: A Magical Memoir, is also announced for publication by Nine Eight Books on Thu 15 August 2024.

Papatango Reveals 2024 New Writing Prize and Partnership with Park Theatre

Papatango has announced that their 2024 New Writing Prize will open for submissions at noon on Wednesday 17 January, until noon on Monday 11 March. Plus, this year's winning play, Some Demon by Laura Waldren, will transfer to Bristol Old Vic from 9 to 13 July.

Michael Head Returns With 'Ciao Ciao Bambino'

As the first new music to emerge since Head's unanimously-praised second solo album, Dear Scott, hit the UK Official Album Chart's Top Ten in June 2022, the revered former Pale Fountains, The Strands and Shack figurehead has saved a radiant, ‘vintage Mick' return just for when the year's finishing line looms into view.

Laura Waldren Wins 15th Annual Papatango New Writing Prize

Papatango has announced that Laura Waldren has won the 15th annual Papatango New Writing Prize for her first full-length play Some Demon, from 1,468 entries. Learn more about Waldren and her play here!

Review: THE SILENCE AND THE NOISE, Streaming

Raw, brutal, twisted, and full of rich wordplay, this play makes its political points and highlights a relationship which uses regret, mistakes, and teasing to hide what is really happening at its core. It is less the star-crossed young lovers of Shakespeare than the smack-stained children of a modern wasteland. 

Review: SURFACING, VAULT Festival

Ultimately, Powell is asking who helps the people whose job is to help others. He correlates the ideas of protective isolation and arbitrary family connections, blame and regret, death and survival. The play is thought-provoking in all the right spots, but somehow the text has an unfinished feel to it. Powell has proved himself an accomplished writer. We wonder what happened this time.

IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE Comes to Vault Festival 2023

FlawBored present their pitch-black satire of the monetisation of identity politics: a self-aware, intersectional, disabled-led dissection of identity and access.

Pentabus Launch Their Spring/Summer Season

Pentabus are launching their Spring/Summer season which features one new commission, two new Digital theatre premieres, two new Writers-in-Residence and the return of Pentabus Young Writers live production with eight brilliant new plays.

SURFACING Comes to the VAULT Festival Next Month

At VAULT Festival 2023, neurodiverse production company ASYLUM and their creative team present an enticing exploration of reality and mental health in SURFACING.  Applying new technology to visualise the journey of a young therapist with a repressed past, this production offers a beautiful and thrilling blend of theatre and immersive technology with motion sensors, responsive video design, and dialogue portraying the several realities we navigate through. 

Fifteenth Annual Papatango New Writing Prize Opens For 2023 Submissions

The Papatango New Writing Prize, now in its fifteenth year, opens for submissions on 6 December 2022, until 9pm on Sunday 5 February 2023.

Clive Judd Wins 14th Annual Papatango New Writing Prize

Papatango announced that Clive Judd has won the 14th annual Papatango New Writing Prize for his debut full-length play, Here, from a record 1,553 entries. Also announced were the other shortlisted writers: Georgia Bruce for Time, Like The Sea; Jennifer Lunn for Core; Esme Mahoney for Wishbone, and Dilan Raithatha for Little India.