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 day of a performance. Our Breaking…

This past summer, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival produced Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with a company of three professional actors and 36 citizen actors from towns dotted around the theater’s performance-space home in Garrison…

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 of new plays extra time to…

In 2007, I was the production manager for American Stage Theater Company. The Artistic Director at that time, Todd Olson, included Gem of the Ocean in the season and it would be the first time I had worked on an August Wilson play. I had seen them, read them, studied them but never…

In New York for the holiday season? Then be sure to check out the below Christmas week schedule for updated performance times. You can find the New Year’s week schedule here.

Title:
Fiction

Author:
Steven Dietz

What It’s All About:
Michael and Linda are a married couple, both writers. Michael is a…

With his up-coming turn as Seth in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, actor Kim Sullivan will be the only performer…

Here at Samuel French, we strive to find exciting voices in the playwright community, and bring them to a wider audience. This year, one of the new writers we welcomed to our catalog is the remarkable Topher Payne. For those of you unfamiliar with Topher’s plays, get ready…

Rosary Hartel O’Neill is a regaled playwright and scholar who is currently juggling several different plays being performed in venues across the globe. One of her most promising works, Degas in New Orleans, focuses on the real-life…

In New York for the New Year? Then be sure to check out the below New Year’s week schedule for updated performance times. You can find the Christmas week schedule here.