Purchase your Festival Pass or sign up for a summer playwriting class today!

Festival Passes

Purchase a Festival Pass to guarantee priority access to your preferred dates for this summer’s shows!

Available in Two-, Four-, and Eight-Ticket increments, Festival Passes are redeemable for individual tickets of the Pass holder’s choosing, subject to availability at the time of redemption.

Festival Pass holders will have 48 hour early access on July 5 and 6 to redeem your pass for individual tickets and ensure you get seats according to your preferred schedule before tickets become available to the general public on July 7. Instructions for redeeming your Festival Pass, as well as a complete schedule of Festival events, will be emailed to you the week before at the email address through which you purchased your Festival Pass.

Don’t miss out on this chance to immerse yourself in the best of Georgia’s theater scene this summer!

Playwriting Classes

Essential’s flagship community playwriting course returns this June in partnership with Fulton County Arts & Culture: don’t miss out on past participants have called “inspiring,” “amazing,” and “beyond my expectations!” Register now

Or if you’re ready for something more advanced, level up with our 10 Minute Play Bootcamp in July and see your play presented onstage at the 2025 Essential Theatre Play Festival! Find out more and register.