Registration is now open for Essential Theatre’s fall Intro to Playwriting course through the West End Performing Arts Center! This fall’s course will be all online, All Ages, and meet once a week on Tuesdays at 4:00 starting September 14.
Come celebrate with us!
Essential Theatre Is Back! Join Us On August 28 For The Return Of Our Celebration Of Georgia Playwrights!
Meet The Newest Additions To The Essential Theatre Legacy,
Anthony Lamarr White is co-winner of the 2021 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, along with Erin Considine. Read on to learn a little more about Anthony and the play we’ll be premiereing this fall!
Erin Considine is co-winner of the 2021 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, along with Anthony Lamarr White. Read on to learn a little more about Erin and the play we’ll be premiereing this fall!
We’re delighted and proud to announce the two co-winners of the 2021 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award! They are: CALMING THE MAN by Anthony Lamarr White and RAISING THE DEAD by Erin Considine.
The Essential Theatre’s General Auditions will be via video submission only for 2021. Please submit your video audition (along with resume and headshot) to [email protected] by Thursday July 1,
This Saturday, April 10, we’re wrapping up our first 10 Minute Playwriting Bootcamp with a virtual showcase of participant’s work read by professional actors.
Our Bootcamp class features new and emerging playwrights that all have an interest in continuing to write for theatre,
The deadline for the 2022 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award competition is April 23, 2021.
Now in its 23rd year, this is the only contest exclusively dedicated to the work of Georgia playwrights.
Monday night’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is Dead Gay Body, written by Abraham Johnson. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing Monday night!
Thursday night’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is Smoked, written by Thomas Brazzle. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing on Thursday!
