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From Samuel French to Dramatists Play Service: Concord’s Musical Marketing Machine Leaves Classic Plays Like Life With Father Dead When Life With Father opened at the Empire Theatre on November 8, 1939, nobody could have predicted what was coming. The play, adapted by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse from Clarence ... Read More »

Overview Concord Theatricals has emerged as the dominant force in theatrical licensing through aggressive acquisitions, but its rapid growth has come with significant service quality concerns from theater directors, educators, and community theater practitioners. Industry feedback consistently points to slower response times, higher licensing fees, and customer service friction compared ... Read More »

26 Miles of Pride: Hot Men, Catalina Nights, and Beach Boys Dreams This Pride video cruises off the California coast to Avalon, set to the sunny, nostalgic vibe of a classic Beach Boys–style “26 Miles (Santa Catalina)” track as gorgeous men turn Catalina Island into their playground. The camera drifts ... Read More »

Social History: ROXY THEATRE “The Cathedral of the Motion Picture” If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one look at photos of this palatial movie palace is worth about a million. Often cited as the most impressive movie palace ever built, the Roxy Theatre was called “The Cathedral ... Read More »

Elon Musk’s Two?Day Free Boost When Elon Musk—one of the richest men in the world—decided to stream Citizen Vigilante free on X for 48 hours, he did more than give an indie thriller a promotional bump. He used his personal platform to put a banned, immigrant?targeting vigilante story in front ... Read More »

Fifty years after Snoopy the Musical first lit up San Francisco’s Little Fox Theatre, the companies responsible for its legacy are still struggling to tell the truth about it. Concord Theatricals, the licensing agent for the show, continues to promote a version of the musical that sidelines its 1975 West ... Read More »

The Hollywood Pantages looks like a temple to art. In reality, it’s one of the most efficient profit centers in American theater—and a key node in a national system that turns hit musicals into long-term licensing revenue. Walk into a current run of Beauty and the Beast or Phantom of ... Read More »

A Secret Handshake It is the kind of story that feels like a secret handshake, you do not casually bring up Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom in conversation, you mention it only when you have found someone who was there, someone who remembers the strange, unmarked cultural currents ... Read More »

We are living in a time when the American values forged on the World War II home front feel more relevant than ever, and a must-see film that captures those values with heart and honesty is Since You Went Away. This sweeping 1944 drama is one of the definitive portraits ... Read More »

Max Steiner all but invented what we now think of as the classic Hollywood film score, marrying melody, drama, and psychology in a way that virtually every composer since has borrowed from. From Vienna Prodigy to New York Striver Maximilian Raoul Steiner was born in Vienna in 1888 into a ... Read More »