This past year, my playwriting teacher required every student to fill a shoebox with items that were inspirations or resources for their current plays. She referred to this shoebox as our pl…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:43AMLast summer, I found a production of Les Miserables that was playing in Texas. Usually, this would not strike me as particularly intriguing, but this production was different. It was Les Mis…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:08AMWith the Tony Awards coming up this week, I am entirely on Team Fun Home. In my opinion, this musical has changed what is possible to stage on Broadway, and I cannot think of a better candid…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:53AMSummer is a magical time of warmth and sunshine where theatre festivals pop up like daisies, and when I actually have time to go on road trips to remote (or not so remote) areas to see perfo…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:32AMIf I have learned anything from my time studying Theatre, it’s that musical theatre rarely receives the amount of respect from academia that it deserves. Usually, musicals are blindly labe…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:25AMSo, I am ridiculously fortunate to be currently studying Playwriting for the second semester in a row with Quiara Alegría Hudes. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her play Water by the Sp…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:25AMI’ve recently found my new favorite musical theatre song. And by recently, I really mean that I first listened to this song about four weeks ago, and I’ve had it on repeat ever since. Wh…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 10:41AM