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NEWS: Page 73 Announces 2020 Fall Residencies

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. 
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Sep 25, 2020

Copyright Advocacy: “We Shall Overcome” Could Not Overcome the Public Domain

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.
Black and white banjo
Sep 17, 2020

NEWS: Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival

Samuel French has announced the six winning plays from its 2020 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
OOB Short Play Festival
Sep 23, 2020

NEWS: WP Theater Announces 2020-2022 Lab Artists

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.
2020-2022 Winners
Sep 23, 2020

Copyright Advocacy: Fighting With Teenagers - A Copyright Story

  • Jason Robert Brown
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.
Girl Listening to Music
Sep 22, 2020

Copyright Advocacy: Childress v. Taylor

  • Cheryl Davis

There’s one thing that a writer learns very very quickly: everybody has an opinion about your work.

Illustration of Alice Childress
Alice Childress
Sep 19, 2020

NEWS: 2020 Doris Duke Artist Awards

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.
Dael Orlandersmith
Dael Orlandersmith
Sep 18, 2020

Copyright Advocacy: The Varied Copyrights of Theatre

  • David Faux
  • and Ralph Sevush

IN THE THEATRE INDUSTRY, copyright law protects the contributions of authors, be they playwrights, librettists, composers, or lyricists.

Copyright
Sep 18, 2020

Ambassador Report: New York City

  • Yvette Heyliger

Greetings from New York City!

(Left to right, clockwise) NYC Ambassadors Kathleen Warnock, Yvette Heyliger, and Matthew Sowell; NYC Regional Representative Winter Miller.
(Left to right, clockwise) NYC Ambassadors Kathleen Warnock, Yvette Heyliger, and Matthew Sowell; NYC Regional Representative Winter Miller.
Sep 18, 2020

Ambassador Report: South Florida

  • Arianna Rose

Although the pandemic has brought a halt to live theatre, many theatres and programs in South Florida continue the wonderful work they do supporting Florida dramatists, now in virtual platforms.

2019-2021 Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program
2019-2021 Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program
Sep 17, 2020

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