Six budding playwrights from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin had their one-act plays premiere during Spectrum 2024, a festival of short plays presented by First Run Theatre.

City Theatre will present a four-show event, script-in hand readings of 20 short plays from Thursday, June 26 through Sunday, June 29 at the Sandrell Rivers Theatre, Miami. Four of the original plays ...

The Horror Section and WeShort have unveiled the winners of HorrorShorts, a global competition for original horror short film scripts created to champion bold new voices and develop original ...

EXIT Theatre Arcata’s Short Play Festival got off to a rousing start this past weekend with its staging of an eclectic group of original works that fascinatingly filled the venue’s up-close-and- ...

Santa Cruz Actors Theatre has a winner with its annual “8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival,” and Part 2 is even better than Part 1, which was reviewed last week. This year 16 short plays were selected for ...

Six brand new 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes inspired by this year's theme, “Defiance,” will be selected through an open submission process. These selections will premiere ...

Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...