Articles by Concord Theatricals

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September 13, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Deborah Yarchun

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows.
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September 13, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Keelay Gipson

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows.
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September 13, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Jeremy J. King

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows.
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September 13, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Morgan Gould

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows.
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September 13, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Eric Micha Holmes

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows.
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September 6, 2018

Playwright Interview: Jaki McCarrick

Jaki shares the inspiration behind Belfast Girls, offers an insight into her writing routine, and gives some advice for aspiring playwrights.
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August 27, 2018

43rd OOB Festival Announces Six Winning Plays

Samuel French has announced the winners of the 2018 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the nation’s premier short play competition.
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July 19, 2018

Playwright Interview: Nathan Alan Davis

Nathan Alan Davis is the author of Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea, Nat Turner in Jerusalem, and many others, sat down with Samuel French Professional Licensing Representative Nikki Przasnyski to discuss his work
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July 12, 2018

The Theatricality of “Sideways”: An Interview with Rex Pickett

In honor of the 15th anniversary of the film Sideways (coming up in 2019), we sat down with Rex Pickett, author of the novel on which the screenplay was based.
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June 14, 2018

Design, Development & Dedication: Creating Samuel French’s New Website

Breaking Character Magazine Editor, Courtney Kochuba, sits down with Samuel French’s Marketing Director and one of Engine Digital’s Interactive Designer to talk about the drive behind building Samuel French’s new website
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May 25, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Oliver Houser

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows. Each of these writers and writing teams have proven themselves to be leaders of the craft whose work we expect to be enjoying for years to come.
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May 11, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Sam Salmond

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows. Each of these writers and writing teams have proven themselves to be leaders of the craft whose work we expect to be enjoying for years to come.
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May 8, 2018

Leslie Odom, Jr.’s Failing Up: An Excerpt

An excerpt from Leslie Odom, Jr.’s new memoir, Failing Up.
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April 26, 2018

Meet the Fellows: Janine McGuire & Arri Lawton Simon

This is the latest in our Meet the Fellows series, where the Dramatists Guild Foundation will introduce you to the current class of DGF Fellows. Each of these writers and writing teams have proven themselves to be leaders of the craft whose work we expect to be enjoying for years to come.
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March 22, 2018

Finn and Lapine’s A New Brain is Filled with Heart & Music

Contributor Katie Coryell describes her connection to the title character, Gordon, and how, with Lapine and Finn, lightning can strike twice.
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March 20, 2018

A Toast to Samuel French at Royal Court

Last Friday, Samuel French’s London Bookshop officially opened at the Royal Court Theatre! Douglas Schatz, Managing Director of Samuel French Ltd, toasted the Bookshop and its creation during the evening’s event. Below, you’ll find his inspiring remarks.
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March 20, 2018

Sam Shepard’s TRUE WEST Revival Announced with Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano

Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play True West will be back on Broadway later this year, starring Tony and Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and Golden Globe nominee Paul Dano.
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March 19, 2018

69th New Dramatists Luncheon to Honor Denzel Washington

New Dramatists, Tony Honor recipient and the nation’s premier playwright development laboratory, willhonor Tony and Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington at its 69th Annual Spring Luncheon tribute.Washington, currently starring on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh, directed by George C. Wolfe, will receiveNew Dramatists’ 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award on Tuesday, May 15 at the New York MarriottMarquis.
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February 12, 2018

Quirky & Epic: 24 Shows That Are All About Love

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, contributor Katie Coryell shares her favorite shows about love.
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February 1, 2018

Searing the Consciousness of America: A Look Into FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3)

Communications director of Intrepid Theatre Company Tiffany Tang discusses a production of FATHER COMES HOME COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3) and how they created an environment where dialogue could be developed, encouraged, and introduced in a safe way.
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February 1, 2018

This Play Is Called Our Town: 75 Years in Grover’s Corners

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.
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January 5, 2018

New Year, New Reads

It’s a new year, which means it’s time for new reads!
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December 18, 2017

Top 10 Reads to End 2017

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.
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November 20, 2017

#ThankfulForTheatre: Our Staff Shares Their Stories

We’re thankful for theatre all year round, but this November we took a moment to ask our staff just why they are grateful for this art form we love so dearly.
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September 27, 2017

Company One Theatre & Unconventional Spaces

Company One’s partnership with, and celebration of the purpose of the Library as a public good, is tied up in the ideas at the heart of Peerless: that the scarcity of access to information — to education — is like a social cancer.
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August 31, 2017

#ReadABookDay: Our Staff Shares Their Reads!

Check out our staff’s current reads on National Read A Book Day!
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July 26, 2017

Tony & Emmy Award Winner Mandy Patinkin Returns to Broadway in GREAT COMET

After nearly 17 years, Tony and Emmy Award winner Mandy Patinkin will make his long-awaited return to Broadway in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 starring as ‘Pierre’.
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July 25, 2017

Oscar Wilde in America

“America is not a country, but a world,” Wilde said admiringly. It was a world that welcomed him and gave him an audience, that allowed him to develop his nascent thoughts on art, that gave him the opportunity to travel and live off his considerable wits, and that took him seriously and produced his first play.
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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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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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February 2, 2017

Incomprehensible & Fascinating: Presenting Junior High School Crime Onstage

In many plays written about young people, some by writers I admire, one can feel the adult hand shaping a moral universe for the characters to inhabit. I chose to avoid this when writing Hazelwood Jr. High. I wanted the play to feel as if it were written by a junior high school student.
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