In just 24 jam-packed HOURS, playwrights, directors, actors, and techies put together a night of exciting and magnificent theatre at St. John's University!

The 24 Hour Plays comes to Lancaster for the 12th year! Creative Works of Lancaster is is a non-profit organization providing nomadic theatrical encounters in and around the city of Lancaster, PA. Our mission is to nurture and promote creative opportunities throughout our community in order to provide exquisite moments of surprise and delight in an ever-challenging world. 

The Sauk, Hillsdale County's community theatre, will present its third annual production of The 24 Hour Plays, with auditions on Sept. 15 and a public performance at 8 p.m. Sept. 16.

Join us for the unexpected: five 10-minute plays conceived of, written, directed, rehearsed, and performed within 24 hours. Five writers, five directors, and five actors gather at Writers & Books on Friday evening at 7 pm, with the actors presenting themselves in costume, contributing random props, and exhibiting their special talents (think accents, songs, cartwheels).

Responding to these provocations, five playwrights write through the night, penning original scripts. The directors return at 7 am to wrangle over and claim the scripts they want to direct. Actors re-enter at 8 am to discover what play they’ve been written into. A unique evening of plays—some comedic, others poignant— is born. Join Writers & Books for two performances at 7pm and 9pm!

Are you ready for The 24 Hour Plays in Jaffrey at the brand-new, beautiful Park Theatre? Participation is open to the general public. Ready or not, it's show time!

The 24 Hour Plays comes to Bedfordshire! A series of teams gather together one Friday evening....their task?  To create a short play and perform it on stage, in front of an audience within a 24 hour period.   The teams will be given their information on the Friday evening via a live stream event, which will then give them 24 hours to perform.

Mount Vernon Presbyterian School takes on The 24 Hour Plays! See what this community can create with new plays written, rehearsed, and performed in just 24 hours.

The 24 Hour Plays: STMA will be an event where students will write, act and produce 6 short plays all in 24 hours.  All students who register will participate! The STMA Theater Department’s mission is to be student driven and inclusive, educating thespians in theater, shaping their lives through the study of literature and human interaction, exposing them to a variety of genres and content, having high expectations of excellence in all performance opportunities, and honoring the successes of the STMA Theater Arts.

The 24 Hour Plays are coming to Hollins University on April 6th!

We're raising $24K on 4/24/24 in just 24 hours! You'll hear from members of our community about how The 24 Hour Plays changed their lives. Check out this sneak peek, and set a reminder to give on April 24th and support our work! https://youtu.be/vA5B20s2SUo  

The 24 Hour Plays are coming to Allendale Columbia School on April 27th!

Our annual partnership with B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California!

The 24 Hour Plays are partnering with New Victory to uplift student writers and their work for a free, one-night-only, Off-Broadway production of The 24 Hour Plays on May 4 at 7:30pm. It’s a star-studded race to showtime as seven young playwrights collaborate with professional actors and directors to stage their own original works live […]

College of the Atlantic's second performance of The 24 Hour Plays! Watch as students write, rehearse, and perform new plays in just 24 hours!

The 24 Hour Plays are coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth on June 7, 2024!

The 24 Hour Plays return to Creative Works of Lancaster on June 8th for their annual show!

The 24 Hour Musicals return to Classic Stage Company on June 10th, bringing together EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS from Broadway, TV and film to write, rehearse and perform four new musicals in just 24 hours!

Students from all over the country come together for the annual The 24 Hour Plays: ITF on June 24, 2024 at the University of Indiana, Bloomington!

Our annual partnership with Curious Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado!

The 24 Hour Plays are coming back to Memphis on June 29th!