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Happy Fourth of July! For the star-spangled occasion, we’ve compiled a list of our top ten favorite plays and musicals that celebrate and reflect on American life

I had that chill, just as I had experienced in the Library of Congress reading room. There was this palpable feeling that I was connecting, being pulled towards another time and place.‘Rumor has it a woman has come in here after her man.’

What happens when a theatre teacher takes on the challenge of creating a Thespian Troupe at her school? Read more here.

English teacher and actress Sharon Zolper reflects on her moving experience in CALENDAR GIRLS.

“No one ever has their first play published. It just doesn’t happen.” Kris Vosler, author of A Good Old Fashioned Redneck Country Christmas, defied the odds and proved the axiom wrong.

What does an epic play look like in 2017? Mac Rogers’ three-part play has the answer.

The General Manager of the Broadway Rose gives us a window into their musical film noir success!

Take a look behind the scenes of a theatre company for six great tips on how to create a season!

Life-changing shows don’t just fall into your lap every day. When you find them, you have a duty to bring them to life.

Degas in New Orleans is a powerful play by Rosary O’Neill that delves into the life of famous painter, Edgar Degas, during the years he spent in New Orleans.

Want audiences to have a rockin’ good time at the theater? Learn about Ryan Bowie’s staging of THE AWESOME 80S PROM and why you should bring this show to your theater!

We have compiled a list of some Samuel French titles that may surprise you when you learn that they were the source for some well-known or otherwise musicals.

Josh Hecht shares his experiences of creating diversity-focused programming – including all of the ups and downs and valuable tips.

Janice Goldberg, one half of the writing team behind Rose Colored Glass reflects on creating and mounting the touching play.

What is theatre’s role in a fractious political landscape? Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company’s Clare Drobot explains their latest experience.

“The Night of the Iguana is a play,” Tennessee Williams said, “whose theme, as clearly as I can put it, is how to live beyond despair and still live.”

Learn more about Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters Program with the talented, and humorous, playwright Steve Yockey.

2017 has left many Americans stunned by our nation’s politics, and artistic communities around the country are finding ways to get politically involved on a local level. Today we chat with playwright, professor, and theatre historian Helen Richardson. Richardson is an authority on most things theatrical, and she joins us today to talk about her adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s seminal play, Ubu.

A great theater experience allows us to see our human selves reflected back—in a way that moves, informs and enables us to relate to the realities of the lives of others.

The cast and crew of GROUNDED by George Brant share their advice for producing a one-woman show.

In this article you’ll find a list of eight screen-to-stage, stage-to-screen and page-to-stage adaptations that we’ve been obsessing over lately. A few are from the last few years, while others stretch back 50 years or more. What other adaptations would you add to the list?

17 year-old Phanesia Pharel was a first-place playwright at the Florida State Festival and has won some of the biggest awards for playwriting.

Playwright Clare Barron discusses the development of BABY SCREAMS MIRACLE and the search for meaningful things in life.

Before you license a musical, there is a months-long (or even years-long) process to creating the score for your show – and we’re not just talking about when the composer creates the music.

Theatre has always provided a wealth of great roles for women of all ages, but especially for those who’ve outgrown the role of ingénue.

The 17th annual Master Playwright Festival celebrated the life and work of the best-selling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie. Her name and legacy brought in over 16,000 people.

Jack Cannon examines Audrey Cefaly’s gritty reality of the modern South and the universality of the Southern experience.

On January 19, 2017, The Ghostlight Project encouraged theaters across the nation to shine a light for unity. Educator Phillip Goodchild took heart in the initiative and set out to bring it to his school. Here’s how he did it.

Nearly 18 years ago when Frank Haney, Carol Kimball, and Dave Stratton got together to write a country-western musical set in a trailer park, they knew that the loss of jobs due to corporate outsourcing had to be central to the story.

From the start, Rosary envisioned this play as a tour de force of obsession, rooted in the real life of the famous first great American novelist, based on detailed and shocking facts from her life.

According to Murphy, the Off-Broadway version was R-rated, “If we wanted Heathers to work for high schools, we’d have to find new ways to tell the same story in a PG-13 context. So we wrote and workshopped a brand new draft with the fantastic support of Samuel French and iTheatrics, and were surprised to discover that many of the changes turned out to be improvements.”

Beautiful address to playwrights from LEAP Playwright Program’s address in at November 2016.