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July 13, 2017

8 Plays to Celebrate Your Inner Geek

Happy Embrace Your Geekness Day! For those out there who have a passion for World of Warcraft, enjoy live action role play, or are a Comic Con enthusiast, here is a list of our top eight plays and musicals for you!
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June 28, 2017

Top Ten Patriotic Plays and Musicals

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
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June 28, 2017

Sharing Civil War Stories with Amelia

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.’
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June 16, 2017

A Teacher’s Dedication: Creating A Thespian Troupe, Making Theatre Happen & More

What happens when a theatre teacher takes on the challenge of creating a Thespian Troupe at her school? Read more here.
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June 9, 2017

Miss October and the Success of Calendar Girls

English teacher and actress Sharon Zolper reflects on her moving experience in CALENDAR GIRLS.
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June 9, 2017

Can You Actually Get Your First Play Published?

“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.
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June 6, 2017

A New Kind of Epic: A Chat with Mac Rogers

What does an epic play look like in 2017? Mac Rogers’ three-part play has the answer.
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June 2, 2017

Parodying Film Noir: A look at Adrift in Macao

The General Manager of the Broadway Rose gives us a window into their musical film noir success!
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June 2, 2017

Six Great Tips on Planning Your Season

Take a look behind the scenes of a theatre company for six great tips on how to create a season!
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May 23, 2017

Going to the Depths of Hell with Crystal Skillman’s GEEK!

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.
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May 18, 2017

In Conversation: Rosary O’Neill’s DEGAS IN NEW ORLEANS

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.
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May 11, 2017

Totally Rad: Staging THE AWESOME 80s PROM

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!
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May 10, 2017

Top 15 Play to Musical Adaptations

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.
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May 9, 2017

Notes on A Year of Diversity Programming

Josh Hecht shares his experiences of creating diversity-focused programming – including all of the ups and downs and valuable tips.
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May 8, 2017

Looking Back: The Creation of Rose Colored Glass

Janice Goldberg, one half of the writing team behind Rose Colored Glass reflects on creating and mounting the touching play.
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April 28, 2017

Art as a Catalyst: THE ROYALE Takes Center Stage in Pittsburgh

What is theatre’s role in a fractious political landscape? Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company’s Clare Drobot explains their latest experience.
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April 26, 2017

Dangerous Species

“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.”
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April 21, 2017

Traveling Master: A Chat with Playwright Steve Yockey

Learn more about Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters Program with the talented, and humorous, playwright Steve Yockey.
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April 18, 2017

Playwright Interview: Helen Richardson on Ubu in 2017

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.
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April 11, 2017

Know Your Neighbors: CV Rep Shows the Power of Theater to the Valley’s Students

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.
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April 11, 2017

Top 5 Things to Know When Performing a One Woman Show

The cast and crew of GROUNDED by George Brant share their advice for producing a one-woman show.
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April 11, 2017

Top 8 Stage Adaptations To Obsess Over

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?
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April 6, 2017

Award-Winning Playwright, 17, Shines Spotlight on Marginalized People

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.
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April 4, 2017

Forces of Nature, Family, and Faith

Playwright Clare Barron discusses the development of BABY SCREAMS MIRACLE and the search for meaningful things in life.
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March 28, 2017

A Couple of Notes: Behind the Scenes with Samuel French’s Music Supervisor

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.
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March 27, 2017

Beyond the Ingénue: Top 20 Roles for Leading Ladies

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.
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March 25, 2017

The Master Playwright Festival – ChristieFest

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.
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March 24, 2017

An Exploration of Playwright Audrey Cefaly’s Work

Jack Cannon examines Audrey Cefaly’s gritty reality of the modern South and the universality of the Southern experience.
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March 23, 2017

Shining The Light: How One Teacher Brought The Ghostlight Project To His High School

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.
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March 20, 2017

Lust ‘n Rust: A Duet Between Romance and Corporate Greed

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.
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March 10, 2017

Female Writers & Feminism: The Awakening of Kate Chopin

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.
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March 7, 2017

Heathers The Musical (High School Edition) Now Available for Licensing Through Samuel French

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.”
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