10 November 2025
Theatre Book Prize
All change – a New Team on the Society’s Book Prize
Since 1948, the Society has advanced research into British-related theatre. We run lectures and conferences, publish books and journals, offer funding and prizes, promote excellent scholarship and support the continuing development of practice.
all about the new team of administrators and this year's judges
read moreDue to insuperable problems in storing the hard copies of our back catalogue, plus the ever-increasing costs and difficulties in sending them out by post, the STR has come with regret to the decision that it will stop selling hard copies of its backlist books and past Theatre Notebook issues by the end of November this year. Our subscription publications – the Annual Book and Theatre Notebook – will continue to be published in hard copy and sent out to subscribers (with supplies retained for late renewals and lost copies), and alternative arrangements for making our books and articles available on demand are being discussed.
Meanwhile, stock your shelves with the delights of our back catalogue before November ends!
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17 December 2025
Lecture Series
Performance: Marie Lloyd Stole My Life (ONLINE BOOKINGS)
17 December 2025
Lecture Series
Performance: Marie Lloyd Stole My Life (IN-PERSON BOOKINGS)
24 January 2026
Events
‘Reclaiming mime from the condescension of posterity’ (IN-PERSON BOOKINGS)
24 January 2026
Events
‘Reclaiming mime from the condescension of posterity’ (ONLINE BOOKINGS)
14 December 2023
Call for Papers
CFP Special Issue of Theatre Notebook: ‘Celebration’ in Theatre and Performance Research
27 November 2023
New Researchers Network
NRN Call for Papers: 2-hour online workshop, celebrating 75 years of Theatre Research
11 April 2021
Conferences
The London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World III: 15 – 17 April
7 April 2021
New Researchers Network
Defining Loss in Early Modern Plays
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