CONCORD ACQUIRES BROADWAY LICENSING GLOBAL AND ITS FAMILY OF IMPRINTS: BROADWAY LICENSING, DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, PLAYSCRIPTS, AND STAGE RIGHTS
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON THURSDAY, MAY 8, PLEASE
CONCORD
ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF
BROADWAY LICENSING GLOBAL
AND ITS FAMILY OF IMPRINTS: BROADWAY LICENSING,
DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, PLAYSCRIPTS, AND STAGE RIGHTS
New York, NY (May 8, 2025) – Concord, the world’s leading independent music company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Broadway Licensing Global (“BLG”). BLG’s family of imprints, Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stage Rights, will now become part of Concord Theatricals. The acquisition does not include Stageworks or the Broadway On Demand streaming service.
Formed in 2018, Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. It is the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording, and first-class producing. As a Broadway producer and record label, the company has won three Tony Awards® and two GRAMMY Awards® in the past six years.
Broadway Licensing Global and its family of imprints represent one of the greatest collections of authors and rightsholders around the globe, including David Auburn, Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Richard Greenberg, Lauren Gunderson, Katori Hall, David Henry Hwang, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Michael Korie, John Leguizamo, Matthew López, Martyna Majok, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Alan Menken, Arthur Miller, Lynn Nottage, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Paula Vogel, Tennessee Williams, Doug Wright, Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Hasbro, and Mischief Worldwide.
“Concord’s mission is to champion authors by promoting and protecting their work and empowering theatre makers to help their shows reach audiences worldwide,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive of Concord. “Bringing together these catalogs combines 150 titles and 400 authors that are already shared between the companies, as well as creating new relationships. I’m thrilled to put our people and resources at their service. As with our team of 90+ theatrical experts at Concord, my career has been spent in support of authors and producers. We’re grateful to the BLG team for all the work they’ve done building their catalog and for trusting us with it.”
“We have built Concord Theatricals into one of the world’s most significant theatre licensors, producers, and record labels in an effort to further our mission of elevating voices and impacting culture,” added Bob Valentine, CEO of Concord. “We look forward to dedicating our best-in-class infrastructure and knowledgeable staff to championing the prestigious works in BLG’s catalog.”
“We are theatre professionals who love what we do,” said Dan Markley, Chief Operating Officer of Broadway Licensing Global. “BLG was founded in 2017 before the COVID pandemic and expanded over the next few years, acquiring Dramatists Play Service along with other licensing companies while funding and stabilizing the company during the most challenging time in the history of the American theatre. Now, Ted Chapin and I are very pleased to have found the right partner to continue to protect our primary stakeholders, the authors and playwrights who create the wonderful works we help make available to performers and producers. By combining forces with Concord, we can now assure best-in-class practices for decades to come for all our stakeholders regardless of market conditions our industry may have to confront.”
Concord was advised in the transaction by Stephen E. Sessa and Ross D. Williams of Reed Smith, Carolyn J. Casselman of Davis Wright Tremaine, and Pedro Miranda Lopez of KPMG. Lisbeth R. Barron of Barron International Group acted as Concord’s exclusive financial advisor.
BLG was advised in the transaction by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Jeffrey Horwitz, Lara Miller, and Laura Addicott of Proskauer Rose.
BIOGRAPHIES
Concord is the world’s leading independent music company. The company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord’s growing catalog of 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals is one of the most impactful and culturally relevant collections of creative rights in history. Concord is headquartered in Nashville with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Miami.
Supporting Concord and its predecessor companies since 2006, Great Mountain Partners (“GMP”) is a New Haven, CT based asset manager with more than $10BN AUM, founded by Alex Thomson and Jon Rotolo. GMP’s team are longtime investors in the media and entertainment industry with experience across music, film and television, live events, and other IP-based assets. GMP brings a long-term and solutions-oriented mindset to partnering with institutional investors and portfolio company leadership.
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Tom Kitt, Ken Ludwig, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anaïs Mitchell, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder, and August Wilson. Concord Theatricals is the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording, and first-class producing. As a producer and record label, the company has won three Tony Awards and two GRAMMY Awards in the past six years.
Broadway Licensing Global and its family of imprints (Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stageworks) is a global leader in theatrical licensing and distribution. Founded in 2017, Broadway Licensing quickly scaled and the iconic works it represents epitomize one of the greatest collection of authors, composers, lyricists and underlying rights holders across the globe, including David Auburn, Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Richard Greenberg, Lauren Gunderson, Katori Hall, David Henry Hwang, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Michael Korie, John Leguizamo, Matthew López, Martyna Majok, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Alan Menken, Arthur Miller, Lynn Nottage, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Paula Vogel, Tennessee Williams, Doug Wright, Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Hasbro, and Mischief Worldwide. In 2020, Broadway Licensing Global launched the Emmy Award®-nominated streaming platform Broadway On Demand, offering exclusive theatrical content, interactive events, and original programming. Additionally, Stageworks Productions, the original live stage content creation arm dedicated to the development of innovative, theatrical intellectual properties, has developed several world premiere musicals, which have been produced in over 125 countries.
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