Newly Available for Licensing (UK) – July 2025

Deciding which show(s) to bring to your stage next? Check out these Concord Theatricals titles, which are newly available to licence in the UK in July 2025!

A Pretty Shitty Love by Katherine Chandler
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m)
Inspired by true events that took place in Wales, this powerful story follows a woman who was buried alive by her abusive partner. A Pretty Shitty Love unearths dreaming of love, living in fear, and finding the strength to pull yourself out.

Dig by Theresa Rebeck
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 4m)
In a dying plant shop in a dying neighborhood, Roger receives a visitor from the past: Megan, the local screw-up, just out of rehab. He wants nothing to do with this disaster. Rebeck’s signature wit, intelligence and depth bring us a riveting play that asks, “Can a soul beyond saving be saved?”

HANG TIME by Zora Howard
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m)
Three brothers chew the fat under an old, wide tree. In this exploration of inter-generational bonds, we peek into the interiority – the great loves and bitter blues – of Black men in America. Powerfully addressing the horror of lynching, HANG TIME is a deeply moving and subversive work by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Zora Howard.

How Not to Drown by Dritan Kastrati and Nicola McCartney
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5 any gender adult)
In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in the UK. He fights for survival, relying on his young wit and charm as he clings to his identity and sense of self once left to the British care system. Hilarious, painful and uplifting, this is a story of endurance for a little kid who wasn’t safe or welcome anywhere in the world.

Infinite Life by Annie Baker
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 1m)
Five women in Northern California sit outside on chaise lounges and philosophize in award-winning playwright Annie Baker’s play set at a medical clinic outside San Francisco. A surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that’s failing you.

I Need That by Theresa Rebeck
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m)
Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy – a hit on Broadway starring Danny DeVito – concerns a curmudgeonly father Sam, his exasperated daughter, his patient best friend, and his many, many things. When a notice from the government arrives alerting Sam that he must clean up his property or face eviction, he’s forced to reckon with what’s trash, what’s treasure, and whether we can ever know the difference.

N/A by Mario Correa
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w)
Inspired by real people and events, N/A is a whip-smart battle of wills – and wits – between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. This riveting two-hander illuminates the person whom many consider the most powerful woman in American history… and the once-in-a-generation political talent who defied her.

Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 10m) 
This brilliant multi-generational drama explores one family’s relationship to faith, history and safety from a global perspective. In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately await news of their missing family. More than 70 years later, the couple’s great-grandchildren find themselves facing the same question their ancestors asked: “Are we safe?”

The Best School Year Ever (Expanded Cast) by Jahnna Beecham, Malcolm Hillgartner and Barbara Robinson
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w, 2m, 7 girls, 9 boys plus ensemble)
In this expanded cast edition of the unforgettably hilarious adaptation of the bestselling novels, the beloved Bradleys are starting another school year with their notorious classmates, the Herdmans. When Miss Kemp assigns the students to think of compliments for their classmates, an unforgettably hilarious school year commences – complete with a tattooed baby, a mysterious teachers’ lounge and a compassionate discovery that might prove there’s something good about this crazy clan after all. Also available for nine actors: The Best School Year Ever.

The Gardens of Anuncia by Michael John LaChiusa
(Full-Length Musical / 5w, 2m)
Before her amazing career on Broadway, Graciela Daniele was a young girl growing up in 1940s Buenos Aires in the shadow of the Perón regime. The Gardens of Anuncia is her coming-of-age story in the form of a gorgeous, tango-infused new musical written by her longtime collaborator and friend, Michael John LaChiusa. With wit and wisdom, the show follows Anuncia as she tends the garden of her country house and reflects on her life.

The Gumball Gang: Crime-Solving Kids by Jim Colleran
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 22 any gender plus ensemble)
In this witty musical whodunit, Candy Krunch and her team of crime-solving friends leap into action when a masterpiece is stolen during their town’s art competition. With a flexible cast size and 22 speaking roles, this family-friendly mystery offers plenty of opportunity for every actor in its youth cast.

The Old Man and the Pool by Mike Birbiglia
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1m)
A tale of life, death and a highly chlorinated YMCA pool. Award-winning comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia’s “coming-of-middle-age story” is a hilarious reminder for all of us recovering from failing bodies and a flailing world that laughter is indeed the best medicine. The play asks the big questions: Why are we here? What’s next? What happens when the items at the doctor’s office that you thought were decorative become functional?

To Tokyo & The Moon by Steve Yockey
(Short Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w plus ensemble)
In this short play originally commissioned from The Kennedy Center to celebrate the centennial of President Kennedy’s birth, a mother and her two daughters return home from their father’s funeral not quite ready to move on.

Truth Be Told by William Cameron
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w)
A year after a workplace shooting takes the lives of 14 people, including her son Julian, grief-stricken Kathleen seeks to convince a skeptical journalist that Julian was framed for the incident. At a time in our history when the truth is under attack on a daily basis, Truth Be Told explores the nature of objective truth and the ways in which we manipulate and distort it to serve our own ends.

Uncle Vanya by Heidi Schreck and Anton Chekhov
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 5m)
Sonia and her uncle, Vanya, have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation. When her father and his charismatic wife move in, lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives. A hit on Broadway starring Steve Carell, Heidi Schreck’s gorgeous, contemporary translation of Chekhov’s enduring masterpiece is refreshingly funny, deeply moving and strikingly immediate.

Zameen by Satinder Chohan
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m)
In a dusty, time-warped Indian village, Baba, an aging Sikh cotton farmer, toils away in his fields, struggling against the vagaries of nature and the modern world. His dutiful daughter Chandni dreams of escaping her fate. Her wastrel brother Dhani dreams of ‘Amrika’. When the moneylender’s son Suraj returns from the outside world, Chandni and Dhani reflect on faded lives and aspirations and reach for ‘phoren’ dreams. Rooted in Punjabi farming and folk culture, ancestral land and soil, Zameen (“land”) captures a world in transition, as nature, tradition and globalisation violently collide around small village lives – lives steeped in a history of toil, struggle and resilience.

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