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Contributor Nikki Przasnyski analyzes Bryna Turner’s Bull In A China Shop.

An excerpt from Leslie Odom, Jr.’s new memoir, Failing Up.

A play’s influence on a theater’s journey to greater inclusion.

Turtle Soup is currently being staged in a workshop production and famed play publishers Samuel French—located in New York City—is in talks with Rosary O’Neill about publishing the script.

Writer-Composer Frank Lazarus tells the story of bringing A Day In Hollywood / A Night In The Ukraine to Broadway.

Contributor Katie Coryell describes her connection to the title character, Gordon, and how, with Lapine and Finn, lightning can strike twice.

Jennifer Alden remembers her father, Jerome Alden, during the writing of his play, Bully.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, contributor Katie Coryell shares her favorite shows about love.

Playwright Diana Amsterdam breaks down writing comedy.

Tana Sirois, co-founder of Dirt [contained] Theatre Company, interviews playwright Kieron Barry.

Kate Powers speaks with several directors who have worked on the play, focusing on their collaborations with Wilder, their production experiences, and why they feel this play remains one of the most universal texts in the American theatre canon.

Our Town began its journey to Broadway with a one-day stop at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ on January 22, 1938. To mark the 80th Anniversary Our Town’s world premiere, Noah Befeler speaks with Emily Mann, the current Artistic Director.

Helen Schultz observes the disparity between unproduced and produced plays by women, about young women, and envisages a future filled with “bustling teenage brilliance”.

“Louder, faster, funnier” is a phrase that has infiltrated many rehearsal spaces, and it is one that has not always gained the desired effect from the user of said phrase. Annie Baker’s The Flick teaches us quite the opposite.

It’s a new year, which means it’s time for new reads!

As the year quickly comes to a close, we’ve chosen some of our favorite new plays that Samuel French has published over the past 12 months.

I was watching television coverage at my grandmother’s when Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before our eyes. Like many Americans, that image ripped into my memory. I would see it in my dreams. I remember my grandmother said, “I don’t care whether he lives or dies.” That moment is in Act Two of Mama’s Boy.

Adam Bock looks life straight in the eye. The truth has got to be there somewhere, doesn’t it?

Ryan McGlone discusses the enduring relevance of Harvey Fierstein’s unflinching Torch Song Trilogy.

Arib Arbus observes Wilder’s prescience in 2017.

Jenny Rachel Weiner reveals what she learned writing Kingdom Come.

Very few plays come to mind that explore the professional world of sports, even fewer that delve into the specifics of the business poised on making money off of the literal blood and sweat of other people. Fernanda Coppel’s King Liz does just that, without pulling any punches.

The latest play by acclaimed playwright Rosary Hartel O’Neill, Wishing Aces, was performed via a workshop reading at the Gallery Players theater in Brooklyn, New York, on October 9th, 2017. Rosary recently discussed this play and her anticipations regarding its future via an exclusive interview.

Diep Tran discusses Jiehae Park’s Hannah and the Dream Gazebo.

Ben Coleman interviews Andrew Hinderaker, playwright of Colossal.

by Christina Malcolmson, Professor Emerita of English at Bates College.

Did you know today is #FamilyDay? In celebration, we’ve compiled a Top Ten list of our plays and musicals that capture the complex, tumultuous, and beautiful relationships that come with being a part of a family.

Scott Miller at New Line Theatre, St. Louis talks about their experience performing The Sweet Smell Of Success.

We’ve created a list of 10 musicals that are each a perfect, and unique, showcase for your school or community’s most talented leading ladies!

Political theatre doesn’t always break records at the box office. We’ve got to keep the lights on and often rely on commercial, well-known works to sell tickets. So where do we turn? Perhaps now is a good moment to look again at Loot by Joe Orton.

White Room has the unique ability to bring you into that world with ease and keep you there as the story unfolds on many levels.

Deepwater Horizon had just blown up, killing 11 crewmen and gushing oil into the Gulf. It was all anyone was talking about.The Gulf. The Gulf. The Gulf. I thought to myself, what a great name for a play.