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Be transported around the world with shows that let you travel from the comfort of your own home!

Author Rabiah Hussain shares the inspiration behind Spun, a story the evolution of a friendship, and also offers a few tips to those wanting to stage it!

Put an instant grin on your face with these bubbly, bouncing, happiness-inducing plays and musicals.

Keep the theatrical spirit alive with some of our one-person shows, perfect for those who are home alone.

Celebrating brilliant children’s books that have been adapted for the stage!

Dust off the old hairbrush-microphone and get ready to sing along with these Broadway hits from the classic to the contemporary.

Get relaxing with these long shows to help fill your afternoons with theatre magic.

We in the theatre know that it takes a village to do something spectacular. Celebrate the spirit of community with these plays and musicals.

When Britt Hancock saw Barbara’s Blue Kitchen for the first time, he was immediately transported to his childhood. From inspiration to mounting the production, his journey with this diner musical would remind him and his audience of the hometown humanity they all love.

Bella: An American Tall Tale began as a response to the erasure of African Americans in the history books that turned into a celebration of Black women and people of color in the American West. Read more about this joyful musical and its beginnings.

Playwright Emily Jenkins discusses working with students to create COOKIES and gives advice for anyone wanting to license the play too.

Let the women take center stage with these 30 plays for leading ladies.

Billie Holiday, Lady Thiang, Diana Morales, Nina Rosario, Effie White. Explore musicals featuring some of the complex and compelling roles created specifically for female actors of color.

A matriarch from Chicago’s South Side; an undocumented maid at an El Paso home; two twin girls determined to win a coveted early admission minority scholarship. Delve into plays featuring some of the gripping and gutsy roles written specifically for female actors of color.

The birth of a play is a magical process. Playwright Donal Davoren (aka E. A. Moore) takes us through his process of creating this environmentally conscious play perfect for community, school, and college groups.

Emma Reeves discusses her process of adapting Jill Murphy’s Worst Witch books for the stage.

From the incredibly funny, to the slightly dark, there’s a Chekhov play for any occasion.

Plan your perfect season this year with these exciting plays and musicals hand-picked by our Licensing team.

The relevancy of Anne Shirley remains one hundred years later. Read more about her timeless appeal with Rebecca Parent.

We bring together refreshed versions of Jane Austen classics and new writing inspired by her work.

Discover seven magical facts about Peter Pan.

City Lights Theater Company in California had a unique idea when they decided to produce Eurydice: a bilingual English/American Sign Language production with each role double-cast. Their journey taking Sarah Ruhl’s stunning play from page to stage was unique and opened their eyes to a whole new world of storytelling.

Ten plays guaranteed to put you in a festive mood.

As we usher in a new decade, the employees of Concord Theatricals look back at the last decade and the Concord shows that affected them the most.

The new stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express was a labor of love for writer Ken Ludwig and director Emily Mann. Read all about their process of bringing this classic whodunit to the stage.

Finding the perfect songs for Perfect Harmony was no easy matter. Initially, the focus was on making sure the songs and lyrics would resonate for each character. But night after night audience members would share how the songs resonated to them: a special dance at the prom, their wedding favorite, or that memorable number they’ve sung at show choir. And that’s what great pop hits are – the shared soundtrack of our lives.

The second in our Passport series, we take you to Thailand for a distinctly Harlem, New York play.

Get ready for the 2020/21 season with these picks from the Concord professional licensing team.

After going through the long Midwest winters, Park Square Theatre in St. Paul, MN has made a tradition of offering suspenseful family entertainment in the summer months. We chatted with Neal Beckman, one of the actors from the recently concluded run of Agatha Christie’s Rule of Thumb, about the play and the production.

Michael Lochner discusses the design elements for the Alley Theatre’s production of Murder on the Orient Express.

Master of comedy Ken Ludwig does a deep-dive into his newest literary adaptation: The Three Musketeers.

Nearly all of Agatha Christie’s mysteries have a life outside of their existence as books.  The dramatic potential of many of her crime stories are well known by the Queen of Crime herself and by other playwrights.  While some of Christie’s plays are based on short stories or original ideas, over the course of her career, Christie dramatized several of her own novels for the stage.