One of America’s best playwrights whose work includes a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, will be dining with theatre lovers in Jos, Nigeria. After a long while, this would be his second coming in two consecutive years to Jos.
Are you a novelist in the genre fiction category? Do you have a cutting-edge piece including but not limited to crime, romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery/thriller, etc that stretch boundaries creatively, culturally and socially? Then,
The 11th Jos Festival of Theatre will open in Jos, Plateau State on March 4th. Over the last decade, the Festival of Theatre has become a nurturing ground for Nigerian artists to showcase their talents and creativity through a Nigerian and international repertory.
In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could be permitted to come back to life. As their messenger, they chose a dog.
The play’s a hit – but how can you tell? Lots of opinion claim audience reaction is the best indication of effectiveness. A group of the UK theatre world’s leading industry bodies – The Society of London Theatre, Theatrical Management Association and Independent Theatre Council – have recently come up with what they believe is a completely new way of measuring the […]
2017 was a pretty great year for cinema in general — horror movies made a massive comeback and the superhero genre was in top form — we didn’t have as many black-led films as we got in 2016.
by Ejiro Onojaife John’s voice was what lulled me to sleep almost every day. He never stopped sounding husky like the first time he mistakenly dialed my phone number. “Good morning doctor.” he had said in remorse that day I answered his unsuspecting call. “Sorry I could not make it to the hospital as planned.”
Deadline: May 1, 2018 Entries are now open for the 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize to all writers worldwide, UK and non-UK based. The Bristol Short Story is an annual international writing competition that aims to publish great stories and promote the stories and writers as much as possible. Discovering previously unpublished writers is central […]
Deadline: January 31, 2018 Would you like to win £2,200 sterling, a trip to London and have your play broadcast across the world on BBC World Service? If so, the 2018 International Radio Playwriting Competition is now open to entries! There are three prizes to be won.
Growth in the Nigeria entertainment industry has been quite phenomenal especially after the rebasing of Nigeria’ GDP in 2014. The impact of the latter tinted the service sector as the leading contributor in 2015 (inclusive of the entertainment sector).