Woodie King, Jr., Producting Director of the New Federal Theatre, has announced that DG member ELIZABETH VAN DYKE will be the theatre's new Artistic Director.
Woody King, Jr. and Elizabeth Van Dyke. Photo by Lia Chang.
Sep 25, 2020
Page 73 has announced that Peter Gil-Sheridan, Sanaz Toossi, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, and DG member EMMA GOIDEL will receive Fall 2020 Virtual Residencies, each of which will conclude with a live New Play Conversation.
Sep 25, 2020
The late Pete Seeger’s iconic civil rights song “We Shall Overcome” was thrust into the copyright limelight in 2017 when a New York federal court ruled that the original 1948 copyrighted version of the sheet music (with lyrics), which was owned by Seeger’s company, People’s Songs, Inc., had fallen into the public domain in 1976, thereby ending all copyright protection.
Sep 17, 2020
Samuel French has announced the six winning plays from its 2020 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
Sep 23, 2020
WP Theater has awarded Lab residencies to fifteen theatre artists, including playwrights GETHSEMANE HERRON-COWARD, NAMBI E. KELLEY, Haruna Lee, ZIZI MAJID,and Daaimah Mubashshir.
Sep 23, 2020
I have known for a while that there are websites where you can essentially download sheet music for free, and I am certainly aware that a lot of the sheet music being downloaded in that manner was written by me.
Sep 22, 2020
There’s one thing that a writer learns very very quickly: everybody has an opinion about your work.
Sep 19, 2020
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced that DG member DAEL ORLANDERSMITH and Michael John Garcés have been awarded 2020 Doris Duke Awards for Excellence in Theatre.
Sep 18, 2020
IN THE THEATRE INDUSTRY, copyright law protects the contributions of authors, be they playwrights, librettists, composers, or lyricists.
Sep 18, 2020
Greetings from New York City!
(Left to right, clockwise) NYC Ambassadors Kathleen Warnock, Yvette Heyliger, and Matthew Sowell; NYC Regional Representative Winter Miller.
Sep 18, 2020
