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"I think every time I perform the play, I learn something new," What the Constitution Means to Me's Heidi Schreck says of her acclaimed stage show that is now an Amazon Studios film. "I learn something new from debating the young women who are in the play, the teenage debaters I debate at the end," added Schreck, the…

"See the whole board," a chess-instructing Martin Sheen's President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe's Sam Seaborn in HBO Max's A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote. Originally uttered in 2002's “Hartsfield's Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang…

Audiences nationwide can get a sense of what all that Broadway fuss was about when the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-winning What the Constitution Means to Me debuted at the Hayes Theatre last year. This new trailer from the upcoming Amazon Prime film adaptation features playwright-actress Heidi Schreck in a…

A filmed version of Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed, Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me will premiere Oct. 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer said today in announcing a new overall deal with the playwright-actress. The Amazon Studios deal will have Schreck creating content that…

What the Constitution Means to Me, playwright-performer Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated Pulitzer Prize finalist, has recouped its $2.5 million Broadway capitalization, producers announced today. The milestone arrived with the week ending July 14, with six weeks left in the Broadway engagement. The production will…

With some considerable help from Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Broadway box office held steady during the Fourth of July holiday week, even with two fewer shows on board than the previous week. Down a small 5%, total receipts for the 33 productions tallied to $34,108,643 for Broadway’s Week 6 (ending July 7). A solid…

Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me has announced a national 22-city tour that will launch in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum during January 2020. The tour will mark the first time the play with be presented without the playwright performing the leading…

Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me has received the 2019 Obie Award for Best New American Play. The Obies, announced at a ceremony tonight, recognize Off and Off Off Broadway productions (Schreck’s play was staged last fall at the New York Theatre Workshop Off Broadway prior to its move to Broadway). A…

The Ferryman, What The Constitution Means To Me and Tootsie continued to build some awards momentum this week, with the New York Drama Critics Circle naming Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman the 2018-19 season’s best play, Heidi Schreck’s Constitution as the best American play and Robert Horn/David Yazbek’s Tootsie best…

Be More Chill and What The Constitution Means To Me, currently on Broadway, are among the just-announced Lucille Lortel Award nominees for their previous Off Broadway versions. The Lortels, which honor Off Broadway productions, mark a sort of unofficial kick-off to New York’s theater awards season. Broadway’s Tony…

The impulse to tear down and start over, as ancient as we are, occasionally makes a bigger noise of itself than usual. World War I, that was a loud one. Sacco and Vanzetti, loud. The Sex Pistols, really loud. The noise was so loud in 2016 it handed the earth’s most important job to a reality TV host who’d distilled…

Broadway’s Temptations jukebox musical Ain’t Too Proud sang to the tune of $1 million-plus last week, joining the upper reaches of a generally on-key 35-show box office roster. In all, Broadway grossed $34,204,242, a 4% bump over the previous week’s take. Attendance for the 35 productions during Week 43 (ending March…