Don Nigro’s Prolific Imagination
A colleague recalls the unstoppable output of the playwright who wrote ‘Ravenscroft,’ ‘Seascape With Sharks and Dancer,’ ‘Cinderella Waltz,’ and ‘Lucia Mad,’ who died on Feb. 9 at the age of 76.
All Stories About Samuel French
Aleshea Harris Among 2019 Samuel French Award Honorees
The other winners include TDF’s Accessibility Programs and the late Neil Simon. They will each receive $5,000.
The Long Goodbye
Why ‘Completeness,’ a play about the impossibility of certainty, was singularly hard to finish.
L.A.’s Samuel French Bookshop to Close
The bookstore on Sunset Blvd. will close its doors at the end of March.
Samuel French Launches Natural Disaster Script Bank
The Bank will provide scripts to high schools whose libraries have been destroyed by natural disasters.
Samuel French Announces Short Play Festival Winners
The winners include works by Helen Park, Gracie Gardner, and Nelson Diaz-Marcano.
When a Writer’s Rights Aren’t Right: The ‘Virginia Woolf’ Casting Fight
A lesson for Albee’s estate from Tennessee Willams’s: Classics can survive reinvention. And while we’re reviving, how about more diversity, not less?
How Playwrights Can Get Free Theatre Tickets
Writers of the world, unite—and demand your free theatre seats via Playwrights Welcome.
New Program to Offer Free Seats to Playwrights
Samuel French’s Playwrights Welcome initiative will give away unsold seats at select theatres to Dramatists Guild members.
The TYA Canon: How Licensing Agencies Build Artists and Audiences
Samuel French, Music Theatre International, and Plays for Young Audiences aim to expand the reach and broaden the appeal of works for young audiences.
