10am, Wednesday 27 November – 10am, Thursday 28 November From now until 10:00 GMT on Thursday 28 November, all NHB-published titles* are available at HALF…

It is with great sadness that we received the news this morning that founder of The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting Michael Oglesby has passed away….

I met Mike on my very first day working at the Royal Exchange. Bruntwood were sponsoring a New Play for the first time and he…

American writer Kimber Lee’s untitled f*ck miss sa*gon play (srsly this is not the title) scooped the International Award, a newly introduced category for the…

Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s play SHED : EXPLODED VIEW has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting during a ceremony at the…

As well as Phoebe Eclair Powell and Kimber Lee’s wins, also announced at the Bruntwood Prize Award ceremony were the winners of three further Prize…

REPOST: Tori Sampson wrote this provocation as part of our 2018 blog series on who writes for theatre, and the stories we tell.  I was…

We are astonished to have received 2,561 entries to this year’s Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting – our biggest number of submissions ever! Over the last…