590 stories from Music Theatre International
If you do PASSION correctly " meaning the way that Stephen Sondheim envisioned it " your audience will applaud only once the entire night. That will happen at the end of the show, after the …
There have been a lot of discussions in theater circles recently about the growing prevalence of (and dependence on) "star casting" or "stunt casting" on Broadway. But the Great White Way is…
On the 12th of April 1865, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, thus beginning the bloodiest battle in American history. The Civil War remains this nation's …
Longtime Bristol Township Harry S. Truman High School teacher Lou Volpe is being honored with the first-ever "MTI Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre Education" by Music Theatre Internati…
It's never been produced on Broadway and its London production was short-lived. But these facts haven't kept one theater after another from doing CHILDREN OF EDEN. Here in Watertown, Massach…
Following ten immensely popular years of licenses and performances of Roald Dahl's WILLY WONKA, MTI will soon be required to stop licensing this wonderful show indefinitely. WILLY WONKA …
I frequently travel to London to check out the latest British hits as well as see how our Broadway originals are faring with the West End audiences. The talk of the town on my last trip was …
Tracy Turnblad travels from Baltimore to Jerusalem where Encore! Educational Theatre brings HAIRSPRAY to the stage to feature 32 Anglo-Israeli and Ethiopian-Israeli singers, dancers and acto…
Erich Segal's best-selling novel Love Story has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide and is the basis for the brand new musical now available for licensing in North America.�…
Created in 2011, the Gershwin Awards are presented annually to recognize high school students in the New York City Metropolitan Area for outstanding achievement in their high school's musica…
“Every moment in life is an audition,” writes Tim Federle in Better Nate Than Ever. If that's true, Federle's audition as a writer gets him the part as The Country's Most Promisi…
Just as live theater is the original 3D entertainment, so too can old-school face to face social networking be a goldmine for your box office and a benefit for your audiences. We all know th…
Music Theatre International is excited to announce the launch of PLAYBILLVIP.COM, PLAYBILL's first-ever Do-It-Yourself Playbill. This program allows schools, colleges, amateur and commun…
Rebuilding Kicks-off at Long Island's East Rockaway High School to Restore School Theater Destroyed by Hurricane Sandy NBC's hit series "Smash," home improvement retailer Lowe's, and iTheatr…
FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY is making history in Connecticut by becoming the first play in the state to have a special Sensory Sensitive Performance for autistic children after it opens at Bridge…
SMASH is back with an all-new season and now you can get in on the action with the Smash Sensational Sweepstakes. Anxiously waiting to see Bombshell's fate in the coming episodes may see…
There'll be a grand finale on the final day of the Junior Theater Festival '13 in Atlanta. But before the big display of entertainment, the teachers repair to classrooms to learn a little mo…
Despite the winter chill that still hangs in the air in many parts of the country, the Spring musical theater season is already heating up Broadway! It's my favorite time of year – a B…
A mega-hit on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and around the world, Godspell was radiantly revisited and revived in 2012 by its composer, Stephen Schwartz, and the visionary director, Daniel Goldste…
While Alan Menken and I were having dinner the night before Junior Theater Festival '13 was to begin, he said to me, "You know, when I was a kid, what I really wanted to be was a rock star."…
Theater companies around the country often ask me: how does a theater company win the Regional Tony Award? Well, I was having lunch last week with my friend at the American Theater Wing and …
The Season 1 finale of NBC's Smash featured the first Boston preview of Bombshell with Karen stepping into the leading role at the last minute. The episode ended with Karen giving the pr…
Pinocchio must prove himself brave, truthful and unselfish, but what about the toymaker? Raising a perfect child might not be as easy as it looks. The Blue Fairy and her Fairies in T…
Live! From Atlanta! It's Saturday afternoon! At Junior Theater Festival '13, Saturday morning saw 4,200 students head to 11 pods where they performed 15-minute excerpts from their musicals. …
I attended the annual TEDxBroadway conference this week in New York City. It's a gathering of industry insiders and theater fans who come together for one day to dream big about "The Best Th…
