Top 10 Plays With Meaty Roles for Contemporary Young Actresses

These teen-lead contemporary dramas are not the standard “teen-issues” plays that appear in theatre classrooms, and are in no way reminiscent of classic characters (e.g. Emily Webb) found in audition rooms and monologue…

Top 10 Shows About Road Trips

Taking photos at state lines.

Singing too loudly to guilty-pleasure songs.

Playing punch buggy until your brother has a bruise on his arm.

75 Years: An Ode to Alan Ayckbourn

In 2014, Alan Ayckbourn celebrates both his 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his first West End production, Mr Whatnot.

During the past five decades, he has become one of the world’s most performed living playwrights by both…

From Family Drama to Political Landscape

The latest group of new publications from Samuel French runs the gamut, beginning with a family drama in the Hamptons to a gripping play based on a photograph of an American ragged through the streets in Mogadishu. Learn more below.

DANI GIRL: The Beauty of Bad Ideas

It seemed like a terrible idea. Truly awful. A musical about a nine-year-old girl with leukemia. Oklahoma!, it was not.

But, something about it stuck. Something about this particular terrible idea separated itself from the rest of my terrible…

Pipeline Playlab Announces 2015 Playwrights!

If you haven’t heard yet, the Pipeline Theatre Company has just announced their Class of 2015 playwrights for the second year of the Pipeline Playlab! Serving as a workshop in order to build new shows, The Pipeline Playlab provides constructive…

Podcast — OOB, Samuel French, & Fusion Theatre

Enjoy this interview/podcast with Samuel French’s Literary Manager, Amy Rose Marsh and one of our partner theatres, Fusion in New Mexico. Similar to Sam French’s OOB Festival, Fusion also curates a short works festival for the Southwest. This…

Something wicked this way comes: Our favourite theatre ghost stories