Friday, May 16, 2025
For the first part of the interview go here. From the earliest musicals, one can trace the creators’ desire to look for ideas for the story among literary works. There are more than a h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:20PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the Earth, took place at the Teatro EDP Gran Vía in Madrid. The book, written by Félix Ama…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:30AMFriday, February 7, 2025
The first part of this interview is available here. Tim Rice has been lucky to work with many talented composers and musicians throughout his long creative life. In addition to Andrew Lloyd …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:02PMMonday, December 30, 2024
In November 2024, the British songwriter, lyricist, and author, a man whose contribution to the development of world musical theatre cannot be overestimated, celebrated his 80th birthday. En…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:09PMMonday, December 9, 2024
One of the main achievements of DRAG: The Musical, which premiered at the New World Stages in New York, is that it redefined the place of drag queens in the narrative. If in the famous Broad…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:04PMThursday, November 14, 2024
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight Express The 40th anniversary of the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Starl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:02AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show – Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay The premiere of…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Everyone knows Alan Menken – the composer, author of the famous animated films released by the Walt Disney Animation Studios – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahont…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:50PMSaturday, July 20, 2024
In 1979 the very first French iconic rock opera – Starmania, created by Michel Berger (composer) and Luc Plamondon (librettist), premiered at the Paris Congress Centre / Le Palais des Cong…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:13PMThursday, July 4, 2024
Everyone knows that musical is a synthetic genre in which a story is being told by means of acting, singing, and dancing. One of the main specifics in training for a musical theatre perform…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:37AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the musical Miss Saigon, an exclusive interview with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. This year the West End production of the musical Miss Sa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49PMThursday, February 22, 2024
Tim Rice became interested in the biography of Eva Perón – the wife of the famous dictator Juan Perón – in the early 70s of the past century. Most of the musical’s book, Tim wrote wh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:45PMTuesday, January 2, 2024
Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the first publication and production of Jean Genet’s unique play – The Maids. “I renounce the world that renounces me.” Jean Genet The original v…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:14AMThursday, December 7, 2023
Little Shop of Horrors is a famous rock musical by Alan Menken, with the book and lyrics written by Howard Ashman, based on the horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman (1960) – and in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:35AMSunday, September 24, 2023
Up to the present moment a debate has been going on – whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had a real-life prototype. For the very first time, a character under the name of Sweeney Tod…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:55PMSaturday, July 15, 2023
It has become a beautiful annual tradition: welcoming the musical Notre Dame de Paris at New York City’s Lincoln Center in July. Daniel Lavoie, who originated the part of Frollo in the mus…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AMSaturday, June 24, 2023
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the very first publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fairy tale “The Little Prince” and the 20th anniversary of the musical of the same name.�…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:10AMSunday, May 7, 2023
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret La Cage Aux Folles and the 30th anniversary of the musical of the same name. This essay includes parts…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Аn Exclusive Interview with James Paterson who was part of the original cast of the legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera, later on, the resident director at Her Majesty’s Theatre on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:34AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” It is known that the construction of the Grand Opera or the Palais Garnier in Paris inspired Gaston …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:38AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
The Italian American gangster – Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone), who reigned as a crime boss in 1920-1930s during the Prohibition Era in Chicago – even one hundred years later, his p…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:22PMMonday, December 19, 2022
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. &Juliet is originally coming to us from the West End, where it premiered in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:20AMMonday, November 14, 2022
Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the legendary hero of the famous gothic novel “Dracula”, written by Bram Stoker who this year turns 175! One hundred and twenty-five years ago the I…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
This year is the 125th Anniversary of the famous gothic novel written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker – Dracula. 125 years have passed since the book was first published in 1897 by Archiba…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:11PMSaturday, September 3, 2022
Interview of the “original” Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical – Bruno Pelletier with Lisa Monde, August 5th 2022 This past August Bruno Pelletier – the “Golden voice…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:14PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
At the turn of the century, in 1998, Luc Plamondon created one of the greatest musicals Notre Dame de Paris, the music written by Richard Cocciante. The musical, based on the eponymous novel…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:55AM 
