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This grant program supports historical theater productions in Norway. The purpose is to contribute to the development of new theatrical performances (spel) and provide established productions with opportunities for continuity and increased quality. The theater activity should be part of strengthening cultural activities and local community identity, and should include and stimulate broad participation. The program targets both amateurs and professionals who create local productions based on distant or recent history. Funded projects must clearly distinguish themselves as separate projects with their own project budgets, and demonstrate local community engagement and participation.

This grant program supports adult amateur groups engaged in voluntary activities within theater, scenic dance, revue, improv, live-action roleplay (LAIV) and similar performing arts. The purpose of the grant scheme is to stimulate voluntary activity and broad participation in theater and scenic dance among adult amateurs throughout Norway. Groups can apply for support for expenses related to production and performances/shows, theater rehearsals, and courses for group members. Eligible activities include various performative forms such as revue, scenic dance (including hip hop, ballet, or belly dancing), musical theater, improv, new circus, and similar activities. The grant can be used for typical expenses such as rent, scenography, fees for external professionals, rental of equipment and technicians, participation in external courses for group members, and more. Each group can apply for up to 30,000 NOK per round.

This grant program supports the artistic production and presentation of theater in the independent performing arts field in Norway. It provides funding for professional performing arts practitioners, producers, production environments and other entities within the performing arts sector. The program aims to stimulate and strengthen artistic development and production of professional dance, theater and other performing arts. Funding can be provided for single projects or multi-year project support for up to four years. The program requires that productions be shown publicly and supports various costs including salaries and fees for artists, production expenses such as logistics, venue rental, technical equipment, materials, administrative costs, and producer work related to tour planning and distribution. From autumn 2025, the program has been expanded to include incentive funding for new dramaturgy, allowing applicants to apply for up to 180,000 NOK towards co-financing of playwright fees as part of a theater production project. Dramaturgy is understood as a collective term for various texts written for scenic performance, excluding dramatizations of existing text material. The text must be a premiere performance and written in a language covered by the Language Act, including Bokmål, Nynorsk, Sami languages, Kven, Romani, Romanes or Norwegian sign language.