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Amateur Stage Magazine is proud to announce that New Directions Playwriting Competition has just been launched.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is joining forces with arts and cultural organisations across the capital to raise the profile of volunteering and enhance the status of volunteers working within the sector, with the development of the first ever citywide volunteering framework for the sector.

The Stage reports that the Broadway revival of Driving Miss Daisy, starring Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines will be heading to London in October, cast intact, for a 12-week run.

The 2011 Tony Awards have been announced and the play War Horse and the musical The Book of Mormon stand out as clear all round winners.

The annual competition, which is organised by NDFA, and is this year being hosted in Guernsey, runs from Saturday 23 July – Saturday 30 July.

The line-up for the 64th Edinburgh Fringe has been announced.

Sky Arts has launched a nationwide search for Britain’s best amateur theatre groups, for a new series to be broadcast in 2012. Stagestruck (working title) will offer one amateur theatre group an unprecedented opportunity to work with a host of luminaries and industry professionals from stage and screen, to realise their ultimate dream and win the chance to perform on a West End Stage.

A Swindon theatre company has won the English Final – for the first time.

White Light and ABTT celebrate milestone anniversaries at the 2011 ABTT Theatre Show, June 15-16 in London

At this year’s ABTT Theatre Show, both the organiser – the Association of British Theatre Technicians – and an exhibitor that has appeared at the show every year since the show began – White Light – will mark important milestones, with the ABTT celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and White Light turning 40.

On the 29th and 30th of October 2011 Amateur Stage in association with amdram.co.uk will present the largest event ever aimed exclusively at amateur theatre in the UK.