Performance Rights

Each venue requires its own performance license. As long as the billing address remains the same, you may submit multiple performance-rights applications, one for each venue, and add them to your cart for a single checkout.

If, however, the billing address differs for each venue, you will need to place separate orders for each venue.

If you have in excess of three venues, your production may be considered a mini-tour or a tour. Visit the Contact Us page and submit the details of your planned production, and we will advise you on the performance-licensing logistics.
Visit the Contact Us page and submit your new dates. Be sure to include your order number where indicated. Provided there is no restriction conflict with your new dates, you will be emailed a revised license and invoice within two to three business days.
Visit the Contact Us page and submit the requested number and dates of additional performances. Be sure to include your order number where indicated. We will review your request and, provided there are no restrictions conflicts or other problems, will issue you a revised license and invoice within two to three business days. Please note that in most cases an additional Advance Payment will be required, and we will contact you to confirm credit card authorization or other payment method.
Visit the Contact Us page and submit the number and dates of performances to be dropped. Be sure to include your order number where indicated. We will review your request and issue you a revised license and invoice within two to three business days. Please note that this request must be submitted prior to your production opening date in order to be eligible for a partial Advance Payment refund.
Visit the Contact Us page and submit your reason for cancellation. Be sure to include your order number where indicated. Please note that cancellation requests must be submitted prior to the production opening date for Advance Payments to be refundable unless special circumstances apply. As regards special circumstances, please see the question: Are Advance Payments refundable?
All competitions require a performance-rights license with the exception of those five minutes or under in duration, such as KCACTF’s Irene Ryan Competition, for which no license is required. For competitions with a duration of greater than five minutes a standard fee of $50 per performance applies for full-length plays and $35 per performance for short plays. These fees apply to plays presented in their entirety as well as to the presentation of excerpts or scenes. Applications for competition rights are not subject to restrictions.

Yes. However, you must perform full scenes whenever possible, and you may not reorder material. Scenes and excerpts must be performed in the order in which they appear in the play. No substitutions or deletions are permitted for individual words or lines under any circumstances. If, for example, you should deem any language in the play inappropriate for your audience, please choose another play.

Our performance licenses do not grant rights to record video or audio. If your intended use of a recording is, however, strictly noncommercial and the recording will not be publicly distributed in any way, as, for example, an internal archive of the performance for your records, then Broadway Play Publishing has no objection.

Video or audio recording for commercial or public purposes requires that you contact the author's primary agent to seek those rights. In reality, unless you are prepared to make a substantial payment, you are unlikely to be well received. Primary agents are properly protective of the video and audio-recording rights of their authors.
Yes. A "reading" here, including a "staged reading," is defined as a public performance in which the actors have scripts in hand or within reach, such as on a stand, and which has minimal production values, including, but not limited to, little to no set, little to no lighting effects, and little to no underscoring or sound effects. The fee for a professional reading to which the public is invited and admission provided free of charge is $200 per performance for a full-length play and $100 per performance for a one-act play. The fee for a nonprofessional reading to which the public is invited and admission provided free of charge is $150 per performance for a full-length play and $75 per performance for a one-act play. Readings for which admission is provided free of charge are exempt from the summary Box Office Statement and Final Payment requirements. Enter zero as the average ticket price, and the application will reflect the appropriate per-performance minimum.

Readings for which admission is charged are treated the same as full productions, with Advance Payment and summary Box Office Statement and Final Payment requirements, as described on the Payments page.

Use either the professional or nonprofessional performance-rights applications to request the rights. When presented with the choice between "Production or Public Reading" on the application, select "Reading." Note that all readings are subject to restrictions. Review the Restrictions list for conflicts before you apply for performance rights.
Orders on your My Account page will indicate an order status. Most order statuses, for example Cancelled and Refunded, are self-explanatory. The most common order statuses that are not necessarily self-evident have the following meanings. If you have a question about your order status, Contact Us.

  • On Hold: the order is awaiting submission of payment by check or bank transfer, or submission of a purchase order number before the order can be processed.
  • Processing: the order payment has been received, and the order is being processed.
  • Dropship: the order is currently being fulfilled, and shipment information will follow.
  • Processed: the order has been shipped.
  • Pending Box Office: the order is awaiting submission of a summary Box Office Statement and Final Payment, if any is due, following close of the production. See Payments page.
  • Completed: the order has been fully paid and completed.
  • In Default: either payment has not been made and is overdue or a summary Box Office Statement and Final Payment, if any is due, have not been submitted and are overdue. See Payments page.
  • In Collections: either payment has not been made or a summary Box Office Statement and Final Payment, if any is due, have not been submitted, and the order has been turned over to our collections agency.