Win Books!

We're nosing around to find out what you're reading this summer. Please humour us. Instagram a photo of your favourite reading spot, featuring your summer book(s). It's pretty simple. But we do have one rule: the books should be Canadian-authored plays. 

What do you get out of it? The chance to win our entire list of single plays being published this fall.

How does it work? To win our fall books, follow playcanpress on Instagram, take a photo of your favourite reading spot (including your summer books), and tag us in it with the hashtag #summerdrama. Contest closes Aug 1 so get your photos in before then.

(Contest open to Canadian residents only.) 

TheatreBooks Says Farewell

Our dear friends and owners of TheatreBooks, John Harvey and Leonard McHardy, announce that TheatreBooks is closing its doors after nearly 40 years. They have been instrumental in guiding students and the theatre-loving community to discover great books, and their knowledge and wisdom will be missed. Join us in wishing them well in their future endeavours.

Click here for the full press release.

Hannah Moscovitch wins the Trillium Book Award

Hannah Moscovitch took home the Trillium Book Award for This Is War (co-published with the Banff Centre Press) at the OMDC's Trillium dinner on June 17 making her the first playwright to ever win the Trillium Book Award in its 27-year history. 

Click here for a full list of 2014 winners.

End-of-Spring Book Launch, June 23

Let's get dramatic at our end-of-spring book launch! Help us kick off the first day of summer with readings from this exceptionally talented group of playwrights:

nisha ahuja, Cycle of a Sari from Refractions: Solo
David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave from Refractions: Solo
Arun Lakra, Sequence 
John Lazarus, The Grandkid
Jordi Mand, Between the Sheets
Nathalie Claude and Moynan King, The Salon Automaton from Once More, With Feeling

Where: No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street
When: Monday, June 23, 2014
Doors at 6:30PM, readings at 7PM

Free admission, cash bar.

Special Reading of This Is War by Hannah Moscovitch, June 4

Hannah Moscovitch's This Is War has been shortlisted for the 2014 Trillium Book Award! Catch Hannah reading from her play at TheatreBooks on Wednesday, June 4 at 6pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Arun Lakra Interview with Open Book

When Arun Lakra wrote his first play, Sequence, it was an instant hit with critics and won multiple awards from the Calgary Theatre Critics Award for Best New Script to the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play, among others. Now Arun sits down with Open Book to discuss the concept of luck and the impact of the Fibonacci sequence on his play.

This Is War finalist for 2014 Trillium Book Award

We are pleased to announce that Hannah Moscovitch's This Is War is a finalist for the 2014 Trillium Book Award!

The Ontario Media Development Corp (OMDC) is hosting a special event on June 16 where the finalists will read from their nominated works. The event is open to the public and will be held in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library at 6:30pm. Winners will be announced on June 17.