If you didn’t figure it out from this post of mine, I’m a dramaturg. But there’s very little discussion of what that actually means on this blog, or mostly anywhere. If you google it, …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:26AMLast week, Sara Bareilles did two sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden. I was in attendance, as were countless others from the NMT community (based on the precise accuracy of Twitter …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:07AMIf your only theatre experience is from school, or if you have no experience at all, at what point can you start to call yourself an actor? A director? A designer? A dramaturg? A producer? W…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:42AMThis past season, thirteen new musicals opened on Broadway. Six of them closed before the Tonys, and of those six, only two received any nominations: A Night with Janis Joplin and The Bridge…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:21AMDuring my History of Musical Theatre class in college, I was surprised by how few key players there were in New York theatre in the earlier half of the 20th century. It struck me how differe…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMWith musicals, there’s an old (and false) belief that they are impossibly cheerful, unrealistic, and frivolous. We all love a screwball comedy meant purely for entertainment, but it takes …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AM