January is the time of the year that avid readers determine their goals for the next 12 months. And if reading more books in 2024 is your jam, you’d benefit from a subscription to the Broadway Book Club.
Broadway Book Club subscribers receive a quarterly selection of 7 plays curated by award-winning playwrights from Broadway Licensing Global. Selections include a peak into the playwrights’ inspiration for selecting the world-class comedies and dramas delivered to your door.
Specialty Collections are expertly selected packs of 5 plays exploring common themes, perfect for new or lifelong play readers.
Collections include:
- Tony Award Winners: Broadway Licensing Global is home to dozens of Tony Award winners for Best Play that have cemented their legacy in the American theatre industry.
- Women’s Voices: This collection celebrates not only women’s stories but also the power and breadth of the writings of women in the theater. Including titles by Lauren Gunderson and Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Black Voices: Centering on Black playwrights of the past, present, and future like Lynn Nottage and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who are setting rules, defying expectations, and changing the face of theater for good.
- High School Theatre: Curated for the young theater lover. These five plays range from deeply theatrical and imaginative to true-to-life stories of what it means to be a teenager now.
- College Theatre: Curated for the theater major, early career professional, or adult who is looking for representative stories, age-appropriate parts, as well as challenging and fun roles.
- Competition: This specialty collection features large casts, dynamic storytelling, creative design opportunities, and a streamlined cutting process. Highlighting classics with a twist and modern dramas.
- Banned Books: The books they don’t want you to read! Restricted or banned from Public and School libraries, discovered why these plays by playwrights such as social critic George Orwell and expressionist playwright/poet Frank Wedekind, are suddenly feared.
Broadway Licensing Global and its family of imprints (Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stageworks) is the global leader in theatrical licensing and distribution. The iconic works represented epitomize the greatest collection of authors, composers, lyricists, and underlying rights holders across the globe including Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lynn Nottage, Alan Menken, Stephen King, the Bee Gees, The Beatles, and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions.
The Broadway Licensing Global collection of titles represents an astonishing 40 Tony Award® and 49 Pulitzer Prize-winning works. The company leverages its team’s expertise in licensing, theatrical production, theatre education, and content creation to diversify, strengthen, and rapidly expand its portfolio into new sectors and markets. Founded in 2017, Broadway Licensing has quickly scaled and, as of 2022, the company represents 8 of the Top 10 most produced plays in professional theatres and 9 of the Top 10 most produced plays in High Schools.
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