Tickets for Season 68 - 2024-2025

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Approximately 8-12 selected plays will be read and voted on by the attending audience. One $100 prize will be awarded to the play voted on as audience favorite. 

• Limit of two entries per playwright of an original work that has not been published or produced.
• Monologues and one person plays are not accepted.
• All genres are accepted (light comedies, heavy dramas, thrillers, mystery, sci-fi, satire) with no regard to language or subject matter).
• All plays should be 5 to 10 minutes long, no exceptions. (If using standard play format a good gauge is 4-11 pages, excluding title page).
• Plays should be conducive to Readers' Theatre with simple stage directions and a story expressed mostly through dialogue, not action.

• Scripts are accepted via U.S. mail or email (to heaton_it_up@hotmail.com). If using U.S. mail entry must be postmarked by Jan 3, 2025.  Scripts that are emailed must be timestamped by 11:59pm on Jan 3, 2024.
• Scripts will not be returned.
• Scripts should have a title page that includes the play title and playwright's contact information, as well as a list of characters and a brief synopsis of the play. Script pages should be numbered.
• ALL mailed in scripts should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner.
• There is NO ENTRY FEE.
• Approximately 8-12 plays will be selected to be given a performance level read.
• Playwrights selected will be informed prior to the event.

Mail (or bring) entries to:

Theatre Southwest

8944 Clarkcrest

Houston, TX 77063

Attn: TSW-RTM