Monday, March 9, 2015
A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, Alan Alda has been entertaining audiences for decades. His charisma, charm and, of course, the memory of his role as Hawkeye in the 1970&…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:08PMThe cast of the recent Broadway revival of Side Show will reunite tonight at 54 Below to perform “The Cast of Side Show: Added Attractions.” Performances take place at 7pm and …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:33PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Staff Picks is a regular series where Samuel French staff members get the chance to chat about their favorite musicals or plays.
The post The Darker Side of Comedy: The Debate Society’…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:00PMRoundabout Theater Company announced on Monday that Oscar-nominee Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut this fall in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Douglas Hodge, the Tony A…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:43AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s On The Twentieth Century, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, has postponed its opening night fro…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:29AMFriday, February 27, 2015
Roundabout Theatre Company’s On the Twentieth Century will continue this weekend without it’s leading man, Tony Award-nominated Peter Gallagher. Gallagher fell ill on February 2…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:09PMThursday, February 26, 2015
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:23PMMark your calendar! The Drama League has announced the date for their 81st Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony: May 15, 2015. The ceremony will take place in the Broadway Ballroom at the …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:18AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
A small town arts council has $20,000 to award to a local artist with an “under-represented American voice.” Should they choose the teacher/painter of modest talent or the self-taught ar…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:49PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Joshua Harmon’s award-winning comedy, Bad Jews, will be transferring to the West End’s Arts Theatre this year. Performances begin on March 8, with an official opening on March 25…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:22PMYesterday, Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith announced that Suzan-Lori Parks’ critically acclaimed epic play, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 &3) …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:36AMMonday, February 23, 2015
The Dramatists Guild of America will be holding its annual award ceremony tonight, February 23, at The Harvard Club with David Henry Hwang as host. Several playwrights and composers will be …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:47AMThursday, February 19, 2015
More than 15 artists will join Tony Award-winning Beth Leavel in 54 Sings Mack & Mabel, featuring songs from the acclaimed Jerry Herman musical. Directed and hosted by Phil Geoffrey Bond…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:49PMSF Staffer Coryn Carson chats about MIRROR, MIRROR, one of her favorite plays by the award-winning Sarah Treem.
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:05PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s beautiful classic, The Secret Garden, will be coming to Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall next February. The announcement was made through a prin…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:55AMFriday, February 13, 2015
The New School for Drama announced today the launch of the Arts Integrity Initiative, a new project aimed at supporting and protecting the work of artists at every level of society and prod…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:03PMAll aboard! Roundabout Theatre Company’s On The Twentieth Century, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, begins previews on Broa…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:40AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts announced Monday that six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and her husband, Tony nominee Will Swenson, will co-star in Eugene O’Neil…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:35PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Larry Kramer, playwright of the award-winning The Normal Heart, will be honored by the Gay Men’s Health Crisis during their annual spring gala on March 23. The volunteer group, which g…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 01:03PMKen Ludwig is a funny man – and he knows how to make people laugh. Two years ago, he shared his love for the master of comedic playwrighting, William Shakespeare, in an engaging, acces…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:54PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Need to update your musical theatre library? Be sure to get Side Show‘s 2014 original cast recording album, which will be released on February 17, 2015 by Broadway Records. The album c…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 03:28PMFriday, January 30, 2015
At the end of 2014, Blithe Spirit kicked off its North American tour at the Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles; starring none other than the Oscar and five-time To…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:14PMThursday, January 29, 2015
The talented cast of the Side Show revival will have a chance to sing together once more, tonight at Broadway Sessions. Broadway Sessions, held every Thursday at the The Laurie Beechman The…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 01:02PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
On April 6, Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher will sit down at the 92nd Street Y for an intimate evening entitled, Back on Broadway: Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher in Conversati…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:35AMFriday, January 23, 2015
When playwright Madeleine George penned her play The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, it only made sense that IBM Research should invite her out to their research lab – for t…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:12PMThursday, January 22, 2015
Primary Stages has announced its first three shows of its upcoming season, which will be performed at The Duke on 42nd Street. Their 31st season will include three New York premieres: Inform…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 03:11PMRyan Scott Oliver, the award-winning composer, will be heading to the St. James Studio this March to make his London debut. The performance, entitled RSO in London – The Music & L…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:49AMCan writing make you happy? We’ve always thought so, but now there’s some scientific proof to back it up. A recent article in the New York Times stated that “writing about…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:36AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
When British playwright Ross Howard won the 2013 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, he had no idea how it would change his future. But nearly two years later, his fourth�…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:07PMWhen British playwright Ross Howard won the 2013 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, he had no idea how it would change his future. But nearly two years later, his fourth Ne…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 01:24PMSamuel French is now accepting requests for professional and amateur performance rights for the five-time Tony Award nominated smash hit Rock of Ages. Fresh from a six-year run on Broadway, …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:31PM 
