My heart is so full of admiration for John Payonk. Last week, he rescued THE MOST HAPPY FELLA at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut. Bill Nolte, who usually plays Tony …
You want to do a musical that has solid name recognition — a great big Broadway show — but you want to challenge yourself and your staff, too. How ’bout SINGIN’ IN TH…
54 Below, Broadway’s premiere Supper Club is hosting two legendary MTI authors in November. Martin Charnin (ANNIE) and Jason Robert Brown (LAST 5 YEARS, PARADE, SONGS FOR A NEW WOR…
On Oct. 23rd, more people saw the musical version of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG than at any time in its 32-year-history. No fewer than 465 cinemas around the nation were broadcasting the producti…
MTI is excited to announce we will be adding two more Performance Accompaniment CD’s to our collection of theatrical resources. The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pi…
In 2008, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and Phoenix Entertainment brought the musical “Fame” to China’s top drama academy. Five years later, a feature documentary film…
Directors of PARADE must cringe numerous times when they witness their production's first preview. They often see that after many of Jason Robert Brown's songs end, the audience doesn't appl…
MTI has hand-picked specific shows that have proven easy to produce no matter the size or experience of your group. For a limited time you can get a FREE E-Perusal for two of our First P…
“Beyond its continuing vibrant life in the theater, ‘Fiddler,’ like no other musical before or since, has seeped into the culture more widely, functioning in sometimes cont…
"That girl is brave," a man said with great admiration permeating his voice. He was sitting behind me in the black-box Shaeberle Studio at Pace University in downtown New York. If a performa…
As a strong supporter of the American Association of Community Theatres, MTI is pleased to offer this special discount to AACT members across the country. The details are below, but be s…
There aren't too many children’s musicals that can advertise "Three Tony nominations, including Best Musical!" A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD can. Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey…
MTI REPRESENTED WORLDWIDE We’re delighted to announce that this fall, two newer musicals from the MTI catalog will receive international premieres. NEXT TO NORMAL opens October 11t…
It's obvious we need to find better ways to teach all children to read. But I believe that literacy is not enough. We need to give children a passion for reading. Once ignited, this passion …
Here's some advice to directors who'd like to do SHREK. Don't dread the thought of that heavy latex headpiece that your Shrek would wear. Do as Stephen L. Fredericks did in his production of…
MTI is thrilled to celebrate the continuous collaboration of theatrical authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Winners of Broadway's triple crown " the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award an…
One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories. It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer G…
NEW YORK, N.Y. " September 25, 2013 – Leading theatrical licensor, Music Theatre International (MTI), creators of the MTI Broadway Junior Collection® (featuring 30 and 60-minute mus…
What would you do if a tree house in your neighborhood could transport you anywhere you wanted to go? While exploring one afternoon, siblings Jack and Annie discover a tree house full of boo…
In a way, it's THE PRODUCERS and LES MISERABLES combined. At first glance, that may seem to be a strange way to describe CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, the 2011 musical with a book by RAGTIME'S Terren…
MAGIC TREE HOUSE: DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK KIDS is the newest addition to the MTI Broadway Junior Collection and we couldn’t be more excited to let you know about special performances of …
Created by Emmy award-winning composers specifically for the school stage, YES, VIRGINIA THE MUSICAL is the perfect way to celebrate the joys of the holiday season. In 1897, one precocious g…
Grab your pixie dust and take your theatre to new heights with Disney’s PETER PAN JR. – the newest musical available for licensing from the MTI Broadway Junior Collection. Wendy …
"Try to Remember the kind of September, when grass was green and grain was yellow…" THE FANTASTICKS is the longest-running production of any kind in the world, and with good reason: at the…
Get the inside scoop on what it was like to create Disney’s PETER PAN JR. for the stage: In many ways, Never Land is a place you know already. J.M. Barrie's creation has so fully infus…