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

This #WomensHistoryMonth, discover all-female Shakespeare performances with The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen on Drama Online. Featuring Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, and led by Dame Harriet Walter: bit.ly/4kIQyhV

This June 2025 will see Open Clasp: Theatre for Social Change launch on Drama Online. Offering 8 filmed performances from the innovative women’s theatre company, these plays speak to issues facing women and girls today. Watch this space for more information. @openclasp.bsky.social

This #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Emilia's heartfelt monologue from Othello, performed by Lyndsey Marshal (National Theatre, 2013) and part of Drama Online's National Theatre Collection 1. Watch the full clip on our Youtube channel: youtu.be/tWHnBPU25nc?...

Discover Tyrell Williams’ inspiration for Red Pitch with this clip from The Play Podcast. Find out more about new and classic plays with 10 episodes from The Play Podcast by Douglas Schatz, free on Drama Online: bit.ly/4259twE

Why does Professor Emma Smith (@oldfortunatus.bsky.social) think Macbeth is such a special play? Discover more about new and classic plays with 10 episodes from The Play Podcast by Douglas Schatz, free on Drama Online: bit.ly/4259twE

9 additional plays across the National Theatre Collections now feature audio description, including Trouble in Mind, Under Milk Wood and Much Ado About Nothing, bringing the total number of audio-described plays to 46. Explore the collections now: bit.ly/40Vr7m8

Epic, intimate, and completely full of wonder, Eleanor Rhode’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream starring Mathew Baynton is now available on Drama Online. ✨ Discover the play now, part of the RSC Live Collection: bit.ly/3Xi5yJQ

In this clip from The Play Podcast, Dan Rebellato joins Douglas Schatz to explore the enduring appeal of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Discover more about new and classic plays with 10 episodes from The Play Podcast, free on Drama Online: bit.ly/4259twE @theplaypodcast.bsky.social

The Global Plays Collection 1 is now live on Drama Online. 🎭Featuring 100 plays in translation from @methuendrama.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Zk63Df Explore our featured content to access 4 playtexts and an expert essay about this new collection: bit.ly/413VUgA

In her chapter from Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance, Quenna L. Barrett reflects on a devised play which looks back on the Declaration of Independence from a Black, queer, feminist perspective. Free to read this #BlackHistoryMonth: bit.ly/40UFhmV

Aurora Metro Books Collection 2 will launch in June 2025 with a thought-provoking range of contemporary plays featuring writers of colour, women playwrights, and other traditionally underrepresented writers. Explore the first Aurora Metro Books Collection: bit.ly/40Ki4mb

Find inspiration from pioneering Black cultural leaders this #BlackHistoryMonth with Decolonizing the Theatre Space by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Kwame Kwei-Armah & Olivia Poglio-Nwabali. Check out 3 chapters now, free to read for the next two weeks: bit.ly/413VUgA

Discover new resources & techniques for teaching Shakespeare & performance. @profjoubin.bsky.social, Mark Thornton Burnett & Abigail Rokison-Woodall share tips on livening up classroom discussion using global performances across a range of media. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxe...

Playtexts, streaming collections, scholarly texts and more. 🎭 Watch our 1 minute video to discover everything Drama Online has to offer, then explore the online library here: dramaonlinelibrary.com