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This is Broadway! We were thrilled to be at the historic unveiling of sculptor Alison Saar's Lorraine Hansberry statue in Duffy Square on Thursday. The ceremony featured remarks from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, whose work we're proud to represent through our imprint Dramatists Play Service.
The 2022-23 national tour of Saar's statue marks the launch of The Lorraine Hansberry Initiative, which aims to raise public awareness of the full breadth of Hansberry's work and teachings. The Initiative includes a scholarship fund to help support female and nonbinary dramatic writers of color currently attending graduate school by covering their living expenses with the goal of giving them the financial freedom to follow in Lorraine's footsteps by pursuing their craft. Learn more about the organization's incredible work at lorrainehansberryinitiative.org/.
We're incredibly proud to represent Richard Greenberg's TAKE ME OUT which received this year's Tony for Best Revival of a Play.
TAKE ME OUT, like many titles up for this year's awards, tells the important story of oppression many LGBTQIA+ athletes experience just as much now as they did when the show was first staged 20 years ago.
Read the script now:
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3350
Playbill: "The Educational Theatre Association has unveiled its list of the most-produced plays, musicals, and short plays in U.S. high schools during the 2021-2022 school year, the result of a survey that has been conducted annually since 1938.
The most produced play of the year was CLUE — a title the work has held for three years. ... Playwrights Don Zolidis and Jonathan Rand continue to dominate the most-produced short plays, with Rand's CHECK PLEASE in the top spot as it was last year."
We're honored to represent eight of the ten most-produced short plays. Explore these and thousands of other titles now on playscripts.com and read the full press release on Playbill at bit.ly/BLMostProduced2022.
Pictured: CLUE by Evan Zimmerman for Murphy Made, courtesy of Paper Mill Playhouse.
We were overwhelmed by the response to our announcement of the Broadway Licensing Standing Ovation Grant, which offered an exceptional educational theatre program the chance to receive $5000 and a feature in our 2022-2023 Educational Catalog. So overwhelmed, in fact, that we also awarded a $1000 prize to four runners-up!
Congratulations to the awarded programs, and a heartfelt thank you to all of our applicants, who are doing incredible work to transform the world of educational theatre and beyond.
Click through to see each of the five awarded programs and learn more about the Standing Ovation Grant at bit.ly/2022StandingOvationGrant.
Kickstart your summer reading this long weekend with a SCRIPT SALE! All Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts titles are 50% off with the purchase of 5 or more unique titles when you use the code MDW2022 at checkout. Sale applies to books only, from 12am EST on Friday, May 27 to 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, May 31, and does not include musicals.
Visit dramatists.com or playscripts.com to start exploring our catalog now. Happy shopping! 📚📖
We're recognizing National Tap Dance Day with this classic hoofing number featured in WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING! This family-favorite small-cast musical chronicles the making of MGM classic "Singin' in the Rain" — and the strained on-set relationship between legendary stars Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, and Jeanne Coyne.
Read and license it now at bit.ly/BLGloriousFeeling.
Video courtesy of Theatre at the Center.
How incredible does Robinson Secondary School's production of HEAD OVER HEELS look? This show catapulted them to the Cappie Awards, which celebrate excellence in high school theatre, receiving a whopping 14 nominations. The school will perform at the Kennedy Center on June 6th.
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Explore HEAD OVER HEELS now at bit.ly/BLHeadOverHeels.
Now playing at KC Rep: THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON 🌊🌙🌊
In this whimsical brand-new American fable, spellbindingly performed by a spirited live indie-folk band, the caretaker of the moon embarks on an adventure in search of his missing wife. This magical swirling tale of love unfolds before your eyes with the use of inventive puppetry as our hero endures apocalyptic storms, monsters of the deep, and the fiercest obstacle of all: change. This 90-minute musical with a flexible cast size wins over generations of theatregoers with its wit, style, and depth of emotion — it's a theatrical experience perfect for audiences of all ages.
Read a review of KC Rep's production at bit.ly/BLKCRepOldManOldMoon, and license this title at bit.ly/BLMoon.
Photos by Don Ipock, courtesy of KC Rep.
For National Museum Day, we're spotlighting George C. Wolfe's THE COLORED MUSEUM.
Tony Award®-winning actor Billy Porter, who directed Huntington Theatre's 2015 production, had this to say about the show: "THE COLORED MUSEUM came into my life at a very formative time. I was a teenager longing for more than just one type of 'Black' representation in the creative storytelling landscape. George Wolfe's unique and irreverent voice of inclusion ignited the fire of possibility inside of me and set me on a creative journey that included stretching myself beyond what, up until then, I thought was possible for a little Black gay boy from the ghetto. I am forever grateful."
Read and license it now at bit.ly/BLColoredMuseum.
Photos courtesy of the University of Florida.
Broadway Licensing is proud to represent these Drama Desk-nominated titles: Llord Suh's THE CHINESE LADY, Anna Deavere Smith's TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992, Heather Christian's ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS, and select titles by Alice Childress.
