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

Join us TODAY to discover how Drama Online can support your theatre and literature teaching with our walkthrough webinar! Sign up here: attendee.gototraining.com/r/2596354221... Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!

Next week! Discover how Drama Online can support your theatre and literature teaching with our walkthrough webinar on November 18th. Sign up here: attendee.gototraining.com/r/2596354221... Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!

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

Discover how Drama Online can support your theatre and literature teaching with our walkthrough webinar on November 18th! Sign up here: attendee.gototraining.com/r/2596354221... Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!

30 plays including West End standouts are now live in the Nick Hern Books Collection annual update, including The Years by Annie Ernaux and adapted by Eline Arbo, Unicorn by Mark Bartlett and Giant by Mark Rosenblatt. Explore the collection: https://bit.ly/3Utc8vk

60 new plays are now live in the Core Collection Annual Update 2025, including work by James Graham, Naomi Wallace and David Hare, plus an anthology of transmedia theatre plays. Discover the collection here: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT

Now live! The Theatre And Series: Drama and the Wider World offers 55 books which ask how the theatre might illuminate a topic and how that topic might illuminate theatre. Topics range over fields including philosophy, medicine, law, religion and more: https://bit.ly/4hBP3Bb

Get ready for Halloween with @NationalTheatre's Frankenstein! Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonny Lee Miller take turns as both Frankenstein and his monster in two performances of Danny Boyle's play, available in the National Theatre Collection 1: bit.ly/3JS3lxn

Kin is a powerful story of desperation, compassion and acceptance inspired by the migration stories of Gecko’s performers and the extraordinary voyage the artistic director’s grandmother undertook as a young child. Now in the National Theatre Collection 4: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

This #BlackHistoryMonth UK, we explore plays that share Black British stories. Today’s recommendation is The Lonely Londoners, adapted by Roy Williams from Sam Selvon’s novel about the Windrush Generation. The play is available in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3KMiKmO

For #BlackHistoryMonth UK, we are sharing plays that explore Black British stories. Small Island travels from Jamaica to Britain through the Second World War to 1948 - watch this clip from the National Theatre’s production, or find out more about the play: bit.ly/48HdVVI

Dre & Des. Young. Gifted. Black. He stayed. She left. Years later, they come crashing back together. This #BlackHistoryMonth, discover plays exploring Black British stories. Today we recommend Shifters by Benedict Lombe from the Nick Hern Books collection: https://bit.ly/42Djlxa

In a crumbling house full of fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they want to be. Kendall Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s beloved novel, Ballet Shoes, is now live in the National Theatre Collection 4: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

This #BlackHistoryMonth UK, we’re celebrating with plays that share Black British stories, starting with Tyrell Williams’ Red Pitch. Listen to Tyrell Williams and director Daniel Bailey discuss the play in a free-to-listen episode from The Play Podcast: https://bit.ly/471eo2A

Discover feminist prison theatre and the work of Open Clasp with our exclusive new featured content, Feminist Theatre and the Prison System. Read an exclusive essay, watch clips from Open Clasp plays and discover free-to-read chapters: www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/featured-con...

New York, 1930: in the face of dwindling opportunity, Angel and her friends battle to keep their artistic dreams alive. Featuring Samira Wiley & Olivier Award-winner Giles Terera, Blues for an Alabama Sky is now live in the National Theatre Collection 4: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

In Nye, Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan, often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on the UK without ever having been Prime Minister. Nye’s memories combine to form an epic Welsh fantasia, now live in the National Theatre Collection 4: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

New collection now live: Acting and Practical Theatre Guides 🎭 Support budding theatre careers with 85 books by leading theatre voices and originally published under Rowman & Littlefield's renowned imprints, Applause, Limelight, and Scarecrow Press: bit.ly/4pGwTSg

After speaking out against the Taliban, a family are forced to flee their country and seek refuge in the UK. As their eldest son’s heart condition worsens the escape becomes a race against time. The Boy with Two Hearts is now live in the National Theatre Collection 4: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

Discover how Drama Online can help support your theatre and literature teaching with our webinar TOMORROW at 11:00 EDT / 16:00 BST! Sign up here: attendee.gototraining.com/r/5525955675... Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!

The Importance of Being Earnest is now live in the National Theatre Collection 4! Discover this joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy, featuring Olivier Award-winner Sharon D. Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

The National Theatre Collection 4 is live! 6 world-class performances range from The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa to bold contemporary plays including Nye with Michael Sheen and Blues for an Alabama Sky with Samira Wiley. Explore now: bit.ly/3Vth0AQ

In case you missed it - the National Theatre Collection 4 launches exclusively on Drama Online next month! The collection includes 6 world-class performances, from The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa to Nye with Michael Sheen. Find out more: bit.ly/41ODlfN

"A fourth? Start, eyes!" The next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems & sonnets is coming. Get your first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series 👇

New on Drama Online this Fall! Theatre And Series: Drama and the Wider World will offer 55 books, each of which explores connections between theatre and some aspect of the wider world, such as empire, disability, and education. Download the title list: bit.ly/46pZQej

Exclusive new Shakespeare’s Globe performances now live on Drama Online! Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 3 features The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III and the bilingual Antony and Cleopatra performed in Spoken English and British Sign Language: bit.ly/46xwVF5

Discover over 100 books coming soon in Acting and Practical Theatre Guides this September, written by leading theatre voices and originally published under Rowman & Littlefield's renowned imprints, Applause, Limelight, and Scarecrow Press. Download the title list here: bit.ly/4meejyD

Your comprehensive digital guide to Shakespeare launches this October with The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language. It includes all 42 plays in The Arden Shakespeare Third Series alongside the landmark five-volume The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language.

Aurora Metro Books Collection 2 is now live, offering a thought-provoking range of contemporary plays featuring writers of colour, women playwrights, and other traditionally underrepresented writers. Explore the collection now: bit.ly/40Ki4mb

Open Clasp: Theatre for Social Change is now live, exploring issues facing women and girls today. Discover 6 challenging and compelling performances co-created by women otherwise excluded by theatre and society: bit.ly/45wEYkZ @openclasp.bsky.social

The National Theatre Collection 4 launches exclusively on Drama Online this September! Watch this space to find out more about the 6 world-class performances from The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa to Nye with Michael Sheen. Follow us for updates.

In case you missed it – our featured content for #PrideMonth features 4 free chapters, an @ardenpublisher.bsky.social play extract and a clip from Shakespeare’s Globe, alongside an exclusive scholarly essay. Explore now: www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/featured-con...

This #PrideMonth, delve into Shakespeare and queer theory with an exclusive essay by Goran Stanivukovic. From Twelfth Night to Coriolanus, it features 4 free chapters from critical works, an @ardenpublisher.bsky.social play extract and a clip from Shakespeare’s Globe: bit.ly/413VUgA

Our recorded webinar, Global Plays in Translation, is now live on YouTube! Watch @methuendrama.bsky.social publisher Dom O’Hanlon, playwright Abel González Melo, translator & dramaturg William Gregory, and translator & academic Dr Jozefina Komporaly in discussion: bit.ly/4kR0Lbw

Next month, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 3 launches on Drama Online, featuring The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III and the bilingual production of Antony and Cleopatra, performed in Spoken English and British Sign Language. 🎭 Find out more: www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/shakespeares...

Our free Global Plays in Translation webinar takes place TODAY! 🎭 Join us at 17:00 UTC+1 (12:00 EST / 9:00 PST) to explore the translation, curation and teaching of global plays. Register now: bit.ly/42VofGs Can't make it? Register via the link to be sent the recording.

Are you teaching global plays? Join our free webinar TOMORROW! 🎭 Explore with @methuendrama.bsky.social publisher Dom O’Hanlon, playwright Abel González Melo, translator and dramaturg William Gregory, and translator and academic Dr Jozefina Komporaly. Register now: bit.ly/42VofGs

Are you teaching global plays? Join our free webinar next Wednesday May 28th! 🎭 Explore with @methuendrama.bsky.social publisher Dom O’Hanlon, playwright Abel González Melo, translator and dramaturg William Gregory, and translator and academic Dr Jozefina Komporaly. Register now: bit.ly/42VofGs

Are you teaching global plays? Join our free webinar on May 28th! Explore with @methuendrama.bsky.social publisher Dom O’Hanlon, playwright Abel González Melo, translator and dramaturg William Gregory, and translator and academic Dr Jozefina Komporaly. Register now: bit.ly/42VofGs

90 new playtexts are now live in the Core and Nick Hern Books collections! The update features hit West End plays and more, including Benedict Lombe’s Shifters & James Graham’s adaptation of Boys From The Blackstuff. Explore the Core Collection: bit.ly/3AtVODT Explore Nick Hern Books: bit.ly/3Utc8vk

This #ShakespeareDay enjoy a teaser trailer for our upcoming Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 3 Collection, featuring Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Richard III. 🎭 Discover the previous two collections here: bit.ly/42VvCNP

We’re helping you bring the study of Shakespeare’s language fully into the 21st century! September sees the launch of landmark digital collection, the Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, with cutting-edge tools derived from corpus linguistics. More details coming soon…

📢 Launching this July: Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 3! Including 4 new performances: The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and the bilingual production of Antony and Cleopatra, performed in Spoken English and British Sign Language. Watch this space for updates.

‘Women feel just as men feel… They need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do’. Find Jane Eyre in the National Theatre Collection 1, available with both Audio Description and in BSL: bit.ly/40Vr7m8 #WomensHistoryMonth