May 17, 2016The Receipt on Our Commercialized Life: SHOPPING AND F***ING When who we are and what we do has been reduced to a transaction, the receipt on our commercialized life is Mark Ravenhill’s SHOPPING AND F***ING.Productions/Titles/
May 6, 2016THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: Collaborating to Inspire and Create In a first-ever collaboration by three professional Vermont theaters, Alan Ayckbourn’s THE NORMAN CONQUESTS will be produced in rotation this spring and summer. Learn more!Productions/
January 21, 2016From The Other Side Of The Casting Table: A Directorial Debut With August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS What’s the view like from the other side of the casting table? Especially when it’s your directorial debut, and your wife and brother are in the cast? Two River Theater Company’s Brandon J. Dirden tells all.Authors/Productions/
March 16, 2015Forgiveness and Self-Acceptance: A GREAT WILDERNESS Concord Theatricals playwright and former employee of Samuel French, Julia Izumi, breaks down Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness.Playwrights/Titles/
February 10, 2015A BRIGHT NEW BOISE: Questions of Ambition and Faith Concord Theatricals’ Vice President of Literary, Amy Rose Marsh, spotlights Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New Boise, unpacking the quiet beauty of the quintessentially American play.Authors/Titles/
January 22, 2015THE FEW: A Gritty, Moving Homecoming This 2015 article from the Samuel French archives breaks down Samuel D. Hunter’s The Few, diving into what’s compelling about the play, and why you might want to produce it in this moment. Read on for a quick overview on the touching piece.Playwrights/Titles/
January 5, 2015Mammoth and Moving: The Elephant Man on Broadway Bradley Cooper takes on the title role in the Broadway revival of Bernard Pomerance’s Tony-winning play.Productions/
November 2, 2014Murder with Grace: A Jane Austen Inspiration Playwright Leon Kaye explains the genesis of his dark comedy, in which two women plot to murder an insufferable girl who hopes to marry into their family.Playwrights/
October 16, 2014Backing Into a Premiere College theatremaker Michael Williams Jr. describes the experience of premiering Murder With Grace, Leon Kaye’s delightful dark comedy inspired by the work of Jane Austen.Titles/