Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Neil Simon, one of the world’s most prolific and successful dramatists, will celebrate his 90th birthday on Tuesday, July 4th.
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:15AMThursday, January 26, 2017
NEW DRAMATISTS, Tony® Honor recipient and the nation’s premier playwright development laboratory, will honor 10-time Tony Award®-winning producer Daryl Roth and Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:04AMIt was announced on Tuesday that Marjorie Prime is the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime, the film ada…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 10:59AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Producers of the new Broadway play Significant Other are thrilled to announce that on Wednesday, February 1st, from 10am-8pm customers will be able to celebrate their Valentine with a ONE-DA…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 01:28PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Title Super Sidekick: The Musical Authors Gregory Crafts (book) Michael Gordon Shapiro (music and lyrics) What It’s All About When famous superhero Blackjack the Bold is kidnapped by an ev…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:54PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
The Kleban Foundation is pleased to announce that the 27th annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Daniel Zaitchik and the 27th annual Kleban …
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 01:00PMThursday, January 12, 2017
The American Theatre Wing’s 71st Annual Tony Awards will return to the historic venue, Radio City Music Hall, airing live on Sunday, June 11, 2017, (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CB…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:21PMTen theatre artists, including Samuel French playwrights Kia Corthron and Madeleine George, were among 74 creative people in seven disciplines who won fellowships from The MacDowell Colony i…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 09:55AMMonday, January 9, 2017
THE GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT (previously announced as “The Sanctuary Project”) will bring the theatre community together from coast to coast on January 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone …
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 02:10PMThursday, January 5, 2017
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will recognize a deserving teacher with the “Excellence in Theatre Education Award” for the third year in a row. Now through February…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 10:44AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community …
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:31PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30pm in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community the…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 01:03PMMonday, December 19, 2016
This past summer, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival produced Our Town with a company of 3 professional actors and 36 citizen actors from towns dotted around the theater’s performance-spac…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 05:04PMThursday, December 15, 2016
This past fall, Samuel French launched Playwrights Welcome, a national initiative for Dramatists Guild Members that asks theaters to offer unsold tickets to professional playwrights on the d…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:44PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
The first article in our feature on American Stage's Century Cycle by August Wilson.
The post Designing Wilson’s Worlds appeared first on Breaking Character.
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 03:10PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced the recipients of the third round of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards. The awards, totaling $669,000, will grant 16 productions …
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 02:59PMFriday, December 9, 2016
Producer Jordan Roth announced today that three incredible leading ladies will join Kevin Kline in the Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter: Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kat…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:42PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Dave Malloy, creator of the “intoxicatingly good, rapturous” (Isherwood, NY Times) new musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, will make his Broadway performing debut in t…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 09:34AMMonday, November 21, 2016
In New York for the holiday? Check out Broadway's holiday performance schedule.
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SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:00AMThe holiday season is in full swing! Need ideas for the theatre lover in your life? We have you covered.
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SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 09:16AMFriday, November 18, 2016
We're thrilled to share Yale Rep's James Bundy's beautiful remarks from the Samuel French Awards. A must read.
The post An Unrestrained Theatricality of Surprise and Delight: Yale’s Ja…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:31PMWe're thrilled to share Sarah's remarks from this past Monday night at the Steinberg Awards.. Don't miss this read.
The post We Write Because We Must: Remarks from Playwright Sarah Ruhl appe…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:53AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
The creation of the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which is inspired by a 70-page passage from Tolstoy’s War and Peace, is told in a new 224-page hardcove…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 09:42AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
In this piece, Samuel French staffers stroll down memory lane to share the shows they're most thankful for - as well as some priceless photos.
The post Why We’re Thankful: Samuel Frenc…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:21PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
How does the power of EURYDICE affect a high school? Read more in our 2016 Samuel French Awards series.
The post An Ode to Sarah Ruhl’s EURYDICE appeared first on Breaking Character.
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:46PMWhat makes us clamor for Sarah Ruhl's plays? In this touching essay, Profile Theatre explores why.
The post Leaving Us in the Light: The Power of Sarah Ruhl appeared first on Breaking Charac…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 04:05PMMonday, October 17, 2016
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, featuring the Broadway debuts of 24 cast and creative team members including Josh Groban as ‘Pierre’ and Denée Benton as ‘Natasha,&#…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 05:10PMThe launch of Playwrights Welcome, a new program developed for Dramatists Guild of America members by Samuel French along with Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, Music Theatre Int…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 03:32PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Samuel French will honor some of the theatre community’s most respected artists, activists and rising stars on Monday, October 24 when they bestow the Samuel French Awards in a private…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:44PMMonday, October 3, 2016
The Lilly Awards Foundation is thrilled to announce the line-up of Broadway favorites who will perform at its fourth annual BROADWAY CABARET: BROADWAY STARS PERFORMING THE WORK OF WOMEN SONG…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:58PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
The American Theatre Wing has announced the date for the 2017 Tony Awards: Sunday, June 11. The official eligibility cutoff date will be April 27 for all Broadway productions opening in the…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 12:12PM 
