First Annual Southern Fried Bake-Off (January 2024)
Join Essential Theatre on January 5 and 6 as we launch a new 24 Hour Play Festival at Core Dance in downtown Decatur! A variation on past Atlanta 24 hour play festival formats,
GA Gives 2023
Giving Tuesday is a worldwide day of giving that takes place each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, a global day of generosity where people and organizations unite to impact their communities.
A World Away From Now: Music from The Wishing Place
Earlier this month, musician and composer George Kotler-Wallace, who appeared this summer in our world premiere of Beverly Austin’s The Wishing Place, released the soundtrack he composed as part of that production,
Meet the Playwright: Emily McClain
This Tuesday’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is The Rock and the Hard Place by Emily McClain. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing on Monday!
Meet the Playwright: Kwik Jones
This Monday’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is Water Boyz by Kwik Jones. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing on Monday!
Meet the Playwright: Beverly Austin
Beverly Austin is Co-Winner of the 2020 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award and now, three years later, is finally seeing her Award-Winning Script’s World Premiere. Read on to learn a little more about Beverly and the play you’ll be seeing in August!
Meet the Playwright: Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is the 2023 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award winner with his first full-length play, The Manuscript. Read on to learn a little more about Matthew and the play you’ll be seeing in August!
The Essential Theatre Play Festival Returns to 7Stages Theatre
After 15 years performing on Atlanta’s Westside, Essential Theatre returns to old stomping grounds in Little Five Points this summer
The Essential Theatre Play Festival returns this summer with a busier lineup than ever,
NOW ENROLLING: 10 Minute Play Bootcamp
Link to Register: https://July2023Essential10MinutePlayBootcamp.eventbrite.com
Take your playwriting to the next level with us in a 10 Minute Play Bootcamp!
In this class, you will create a 10 minute play over the course of four weeks.
FINAL WEEK to register for Essential Theatre Introduction to Playwriting!
Link to register: wepacintrotoplaywriting_summer2023.eventbrite.com
Registration closes at 2pm this Sunday, June 4.
Classes are all online, Tuesdays afternoons starting June 6 (next Tuesday)
Classes are 90 minutes long and meet weekly on Tuesdays at 2pm,
