As 2020 looms on the horizon, it’s time for Artistic Directors to start thinking about their next season. We spoke with Concord’s Professional Licensing department (Michelle Yaroshko, VP; Teresa Castro, Zach Kaufer, and Theresa Posorske, Professional Licensing Managers) to get their suggestions for plays and musicals that will give your theatre an exciting, fresh season.
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Comedies
Bye Bye Birdie by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams (Comedy/8m, 12f)
The Gods of Comedy by Ken Ludwig (Comedy/4m, 3f)
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl (Comedy/4m, 4f)
Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George (Comedy/5f)
Nice Work If You Can Get It by George and Ira Gershwin and Joe DiPietro (Comedy/5m, 5f)
Significant Other by Joshua Harmon (Comedy/ 3m, 4f)
The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh (Dark Comedy/3m, 1f)
Unexpected Family Stories
The Book of Joseph by Karen Hartman (Drama/4m, 5f)
Cinderella by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Comedy/5m, 6f)
In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes (Comedy/6m, 6f)
King of the Yees by Lauren Yee (Dramatic Comedy/3m, 2f)
Mary Jane by Amy Herzog (Drama/5f)
Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts (Drama/6m, 11f, 1 girl)
Noura by Heather Raffo (Drama/2m, 2f, 1 boy)
Plano by Will Arbery (Comedy/2m, 5f)
Twelfth Night by Kwame Kwei-Armah, Shaina Taub, and William Shakespeare (Comedy/7m, 4f)
Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung (Drama/4m, 4f)
The Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (Comedy/5m, 3f)
Historical
An American in Paris by George and Ira Gershwin and Craig Lucas (Dramatic Comedy/5m, 4f)
Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck (Comedy/8m, 3f)
Farinelli and The King by Claire van Kampen (Drama/6m, 1f)
Onegin by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille (Drama/4m, 3f)
Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau (Drama/3m, 2f)
Toni Stone by Lydia R. Diamond (Dramatic Comedy/8m, 1f)
Witch by Jen Silverman (Dramatic Comedy, 3m, 2f)
Shows to Start a Conversation
American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown (Drama/3m, 1f)
The Harvest by Samuel D. Hunter (Drama/4m, 3f)
The Light by Loy A. Webb (Drama/1m, 1f)
On the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman (Drama/1f)
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu (Drama/3m)
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau (Drama/3m, 3f)
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development by Miranda Rose Hall (Drama/1f, 1m or f)
The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d by Jonathan Payne (Drama/4m, 5f)
Something Clean by Selina Fillinger (Drama/2m, 1f)
The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (2m, 2f)
What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris (Drama/4m, 4f)
White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks (Drama/2m, 2f)
The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel, and Charlotte Jones (Drama/4m, 3f)
To explore more incredible plays for your professional season, click here. And for impressive, stunning musicals, click here.
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