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Performance and Licensing Rights
Performance and Licensing Rights
Performance and Licensing Rights
ABOUT DPS
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (DPS) was created in 1936 to foster national opportunities for playwrights by publishing affordable editions of their plays and handling the performance rights to these works.
Dramatists Play Service has since grown steadily to become one of the premier play-licensing and theatrical publishing agencies in the world. Offering an extensive list of titles that includes many of the most significant plays of the past century, DPS preserves the rich history of drama.
Acquired by Broadway Licensing in March of 2021, Dramatists Play Service works with thousands of theaters to ensure the future vitality of the theater. It is committed to providing a home for established writers and to nurturing new playwrights of exceptional promise.
ABOUT NICK HERN BOOKS
Nick Hern Books is the UK’s leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. We also license most of our plays for amateur performance (see our Plays to Perform site).
The list of plays includes work by many of the UK’s preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a ‘programme/text’ that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext.
Nick Hern Books also publishes many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.
Their titles are distributed internationally through our publishing associates: Theatre Communications Group in the USA, Currency Press in Australia and Playwrights Canada Press in Canada.
ASSOCIATION WITH JAGRITI
JAGRITI represents Dramatists Play Service (DPS) and Nick Hern Books (NHB) in India for the issue of Licences to Perform plays for which they hold the rights. There are certain exceptions of territory, when we may be required to approach the Agent of the Playwright.
Licences must be procured for every performance and venue on dates and times specified. Repeat performances of plays are not covered by the Licence originally issued and must be applied for stating venue, dates and times of performances.
Requests to Perform from are frequently directed to us from neighbouring countries. Please note that Jagriti is only authorised to issue Licences to Perform. Requests for adaptation and translation of a work under copyright must be directed to the appropriate agent.
Please seek permission to perform before you commence rehearsals. Permission for Perform may not be given for any number of reasons. You don't want to commit to Cast, Crew, Venue and Sponsors only to have to tell them that the performance has been called off. Going on stage without a Licence to Perform is an offence. Please comply.
You can find the complete list of plays at the DPS Website:
Contact us for acting editions and performance rights of Plays registered with DPS at: