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Neil Simon, one of the world's most prolific and successful dramatists, will celebrate his 90th birthday on Tuesday, July 4th.
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…
It 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 adapt…
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…
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 evil…
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 …
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 CBS …
Ten 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…
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 to l…
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 10,…
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 …
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…
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-space …
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…
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.
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 production…
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 K…
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 the s…
In New York for the holiday? Check out Broadway's holiday performance schedule.
The post Broadway’s 2016 Thanksgiving Week Schedule appeared first on Breaking Character.
The holiday season is in full swing! Need ideas for the theatre lover in your life? We have you covered.
The post Holiday Gift Ideas from Samuel French appeared first on Breaking Character.
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…
We'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…
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…
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…
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.
