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The Dramatists Guild of America is proud to announce they will present the 2019 Horton Foote Playwriting Award to playwrights Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck at the Dramatists Guild's annual awards presentations in July.

Unstoppable Theater in association with Less Than Rent Theatre will present a private, industry reading of AUNT JACK by S.

Actors' Equity Association has announced that Lynn Rhinehart has been named Special Counsel, effective immediately.

Steele Spring Stage Rights, the licensing company that represents The Marvelous Wonderettes, has just acquired the licensing and theatrical performance rights to the award-winning off-Broadway musical comedy smash that sets William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the Wild West.

Waterwell is proud to announce the 2019 New Works Lab World Premiere of June July August by Sinead Daly, directed by Heather Lanza.

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Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2019 Audition Weekend, Combined Auditions presented with sponsorship from BackStage, Actors Connection, The PIT and Reproductions.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the March Panel, Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at Polaris North, 245 W.

29th Street Playwright Collective presents a reading of WHY BIRDS FLY written by Emma Goldman-Sherman and directed by Brooke Viegut on Friday, March 29th at 7:30pm, in the Dramatists Guild's Mary Rodgers Room, as part of the DG's Friday Night Footlights Reading Series.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has secured worldwide licensing rights to the hit musical Rocky, coinciding with the anniversary of the show's Broadway debut on March 13, 2014 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, with book, music, and lyrics by Nathan Dame and Rob Baumgartner, Jr.

Producer Eric Krebs, in association with Harriet Spalding & Michael Planit, will present developmental lab presentations of I Spy A Spy, a new (declassified) musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Jamie Jackson and music & lyrics by SoHee Youn

New York Representatives from Actors' Equity Association joined the 32nd Annual Arts Advocacy Day meeting in Washington, D.

Maia Directors was created as a consulting service for organizations and artists engaging with stories and cultures from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA).

The 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.

La Vie Productions will present a private industry reading of The Porch, a new play by Kari Floren, on Monday, March 4, 2019 in NYC.

On the heels of two sold out runs at 54 Below, STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL will be having will be having special industry readings on Monday, March 4th at 4PM & 6:30PM and Tuesday, March 5th at 1PM at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (405 West 55th Street at Ninth Avenue).

The Vicious Circle will present two private industry readings of Academy Award-nominee Michael Weller's new play, BUYER BEWARE or How Lenny Bruce Found a Safe Space (and lost it again), directed by Tony Speciale.

The first national, all-discipline childcare grant awards from Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts have been awarded to five recipients, including four individual childcare grants and one institutional childcare match grant.

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Department of Drama and live entertainment advertising agency Serino Coyne are proud to announce they have teamed up to create the Women's Mentorship Program, an initiative that pairs female-identifying students interested in arts management with some of New York's

With over 25 years in the industry, John Bolton is the ultimate showman.

The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced a group of talented actors serving as Ambassadors for the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.

Steele Spring Stage Rights, the licensing company that represents The Marvelous Wonderettes, has just acquired the licensing and theatrical performance rights to the hit Off-Broadway parody musical mash-up about a pair of Mormon missionaries and their attempt to convert their unsuspecting target, mu

With a well-established history of presenting a wide variety of speakers from theater, academics, government, hospitality, sciences, technology and more, TEDxBroadway organizers will once again expand their scope even further this year to find new voices for the upcoming 8th annual event on Tuesday,

Co-Founders and Principals Temah Higgins and DJ Martin of Bond Theatrical Group, a fully independent booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment, announced today that industry veteran Mollie Mann has joined the organization as a Principal.