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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Samuel French to Publish Morillo's Marriage Hearse and Angry Young WomenThe plays of Matt Morillo – Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans With High Class Issues and All Aboard the Marriage Hearse – will be published by Samuel French. The publishing company picked up the new works from Morillo, who is currently represented with the extended run of All Aboard the Marriage Hearse at the Theater for the...
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Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Jason Burns : If there's one store in L.A. where you can find something for everyone on your list, it's probably Samuel French . Books and gifts for actors, writers, directors, musicians, agents, teachers, etc. There isn't much parking in the alley behind Sam French, so park at the Big 5 across Radford on Ventura Place. FYI: They're closed Dec. 24-25 and Dec. 31 - Jan 1. Continued...
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Hearts & Minds (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
... have happened recently to prompt me into accessing my PC's H&M folder again. The first is that Samuel French replied after having written a while back to say they would be assessing the play. Predictably, they declined to take the play on - citing its sexual frankness as having limited appeal for Amateur companies - but complimented it as an amusing and well-written piece. Secondly,...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
... own mother, Rosalind Friedman, the recording secretary. (Yes, my mom, and I’m damn proud of her!) Samuel French publishers helped sponsor the event. For the record, my mom got in some good questions. The tree doesn't fall from the apple!
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Living In<BR>The Bonus Round (Free subscription) | 10/07/2007
... been doing The Big Voice. At this point, there are no other productions scheduled. But now that Samuel French is licensing it, there's no telling where it could pop up, with or without the two of us. Still, after almost a year on the road, it will be nice to get back home. But there's news on the horizon about "Zero Hour." No dates or venues have been set yet, but I do have news and...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
... with "The Spitfire Grill."William Theisen, the Skylight's artistic director, said that publisher Samuel French is revising the orchestration and other aspects of the 2003 version the Skylight had planned to use. Both parties, he said, expected the new edition to be ready in time for a spring staging, but it won't be ready in time."The publisher is saying now that it will be 2009 or...
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Living In<BR>The Bonus Round (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
Announcing the good news! The Big Voice: God or Merman? has now been officially licensed and published by Samuel French. You can order your own copy of the script directly from them by going to this page . And if you're a producer and you want to produce The Big Voice in your theater, you can license the play, find a couple of middle aged prima donnas who've been wanting to play romantic...
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Hearts & Minds (Free subscription) | 09/04/2007
... Peggy Paterson. We had a quick chat about what next for H&M and she was very pleased to hear of Samuel French's interest, confirming that they usually don't look at scripts which have only been produced by amateur companies. Having been brought to the stage, H&M is past the point where Script can help, but this may be the route to go through next time.
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The Sharp Side (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007
A large part of the action in John Osborne’s The Entertainer consists of the cast sitting around drinking and reminiscing. And as an actor himself, Osborne plainly believed that the cast should not be fobbed off with watery substitutes for the real thing. My Samuel French acting edition of includes a property list. Among the categories listed is DRINKS NEEDED FOR EACH PERFORMANCE . These...
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FURIOUS nads! (Free subscription) | 08/29/2007
Something like two decades ago, I obsessively was reading the plays of prolific playwright Don Nigro (recently mentioned here), including ordering from Samuel French manuscripts of plays they hadn't yet published. I've only managed (and, again, something like twenty years ago) to see one production, of a play called The Curate Shakespeare's As You Like It. Specifically, a production in...
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 08/14/2007
... with Murder at Jermyn Street. Also written by Wakefield and Leach, it was recently published by Samuel French. Wakefield, a former law lecturer who is now an actor as well as a writer, recently played Judge Turpin in the award-winning West End revival of Sweeney Todd . With composer Kate Edgar, he wrote eight traditional pantomimes for Salisbury Playhouse and three family musicals...
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slacktivist (Free subscription) | 07/29/2007
... for various amounts. This would have to be displayed prominently, and I would include Broadway/Samuel French-style requirements for font and poster sizes. I'm picturing rules that would result in day-glo orange posters behind every check-cashing counter with six-inch high bold block letters stating: "WE TAKE X% OUT OF EVERY CHECK WE CASH." 2) A prominently placed informational kiosk,...
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Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/20/2007
... Angeles' notorious hot spot, Forty Deuce, but instead to its legendary film and drama bookstore, Samuel French. While among books ranging from the films of director Howard Hawks to the plays of Ibsen, Lindsay could study up on Bette Davis, Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor, women who themselves endured intense scrutiny, and in some cases public hatred, yet emerged not only as Oscar...
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AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere (Free subscription) | 07/04/2007
The Wayfarers Drama Group will perform the adaptation by Matthew Francis, which is available for purchase from Samuel French, Amazon, and other retailers. It can also be found at many university drama libraries. It's a light, fun play and well suited to community theater. (Shameless self-promotion: the features previous cast lists, a review of the play script, and reviews of past performances.)...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/16/2007
Steward said she didn't know she had to get rights to the musical, adapted from the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." She was using a script and karaoke music she found on the Internet. When she learned she needed permission, she filed a request, but said she never heard back from the company, Samuel French Inc.
