In a way, the Junior Theater Festival has the wrong name. Someone not familiar with the magnificent two-day event that occurs each January in Atlanta might assume that the "Junior" means tha…
MURDER BALLAD, the hot new show that had critics and audiences raving is now available for licensing! MURDER BALLAD is the dramatic story of a love triangle gone wrong centering on Sara, an …
The Nebraska Theatre Caravan is launching a national tour of THE FANTASTICKS that reimagines the classic show with a steampunk sensibility. Talk about a time-proven audience-pleaser! “…
When we last left Nate Foster, we didn't want to. Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle's young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old native …
Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I'm looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four. The Moorestown Theat…
Tony-nominated composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Andy Jones (Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Little Mermaid), Ashley Brown (the original Mary Poppins…
The Junior Theater Festival is a weekend dedicated to celebrating young people and musical theater. JTF brings students, teachers and Broadway professionals together from around the country …
Whenever someone has asked me the question, "If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who's ever lived, who would it be?" my answer has always been "Thornton Wilder. I'd love to chat w…
The curtain is about to rise on your next production! As you begin choosing your spring and summer musicals we would like to offer some suggestions from our MTI BROADWAY JUNIOR COLLECTION fe…
The curtain is about to rise on your high school’s next production! As you begin choosing your spring and summer musicals we would like to offer some suggestions from our rich and exte…
Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there's one aspect of life on which they all agree. Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too…
William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season. "It's hard to be smart." Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another mo…
You may know the song entitled "The Story of My Life" from SHREK, but do you know the musical called THE STORY OF MY LIFE? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jea…
Whether you are attending solo for Professional Development to enrich your soul or bringing kids to “strut their stuff’, JTF Atlanta, GA 2014 promises to deliver. Â It never fa…
When you mount a musical, you needn't slavishly follow a Broadway's production's template. In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway o…
Welcome your actors to the 60′s with HAIRSPRAY JR…the newest musical available for licensing from the MTI Broadway Junior Collection. Good morning, Baltimore! It’s 1962, an…
It's a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music. So why not a musical about math? Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It's T…
Get ready for the theatrical thrill of a lifetime…PETER PAN – the original Broadway classic is the newest addition to MTI’s musical family and is available for licensing NO…
Even those super-intellectual students at Harvard University have been known to say on their rare off-hours "Hey, kids! Let's put on a show!" And so, an intrepid band of undergrads got toget…
"Everybody has problems. Nobody goes through life unscathed, and I think if you write about those things, you're going to touch people," says Stephen Sondheim in SIX BY SONDHEIM, an intimate…
54 Below Broadway’s premiere Supper Club is hosting two legendary MTI writing teams in December. Zina Goldrich & Marcy Heisler (DEAR EDWINA) and Richard Maltby, Jr. & Da…
Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and MISS SAIGON take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a h…
The Pennsylvania Players certainly got the timing right. Just before the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the troupe presented Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman…
If you’ve recently attended a Broadway show or National Tour, you probably experienced something very special going on aside from the fantastic performances. Twice a year, for six week…
The classic 1987 motion picture fantasy bursts onto the stage in this unforgettable new Theatre for Young Audiences version of BIG, THE MUSICAL TYA, now available for licensing! When frustra…