590 stories from Music Theatre International
One doesn't get that many opportunities to see TEDDY&ALICE, the 1987 Broadway musical. So when Shadow Lawn Stage in West Long Branch, New Jersey announced it was doing the little-known s…
MTI’s Chairman and CEO is back with his latest, thought-provoking article on the Huffington Post. In this piece, Freddie takes an inspiring look at our nation’s educators and…
Do your students and cast members want to be stars? Check out this cool opportunity for kids 13 or over! Star in the official music video for PITCH PERFECT the Movie featuring Mike Tompk…
Many schools and after-school programs that have been "going green" environmentally are about to go green theatrically, too. For that lovable green ogre known as Shrek, the subject of a 2008…
If you attend a Broadway show this August in New York we hope you hold onto your Playbills! In the August editions of Playbill, MTI’s Chairman and CEO Freddie Gershon is highlighte…
Many of you have had the joyful, fulfilling, heartening experience of producing one of MTI’s most popular and beloved holiday shows, THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER. While many theatres hav…
Musical theatre and the arts at large, lost a giant today. Marvin Hamlisch has, rather suddenly, passed away. He was 68. He became a household name in 1973 when he won three Academy Awards f…
HAIRSPRAY’s co-librettist Mark O’Donnell passed away on August 6th, at the age of 58. A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and George S. Kaufman Award, Mr. O’Donnell…
There's a lot of life in the New Girl yet. New Girl in Town, that is, the 1957 musical of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. It was a hit in its day and ran over a year, and yet…
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan ANNIE charms everyone’s hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. And now, alongside her signature pal …
Attend the tale of Benjamin Barker. Well, that's Sweeney Todd's real name, isn't it? Or so Mrs. Lovett tells us three songs into the 1978-1979 Tony-winning musical. But if you're considering…
Maltby and Shire’s CLOSER THAN EVER (playing in NYC at The York Theatre Company’s Saint Peter’s theatre) has now been extended through August 25th. Read the fabulous re…
Nobody's dressed in a tux or a gown, but it's a world premiere nevertheless. We're not quite on Broadway, either, but on Tenth Avenue at The 52nd Street Project Theater. But you can feel fro…
You can have Dolly Parton in your next musical. Well, in a manner of speaking. Dolly won't show up to do eight a week, but she will appear in 9 to 5 " at least in a video that comes with the…
Eight exceptional educators from schools and performing arts centers around the country will work one-on-one with Broadway greats at the 3rd Annual FREDDIE G BROADWAY EXPERIENCE July 12th &#…
Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s CLOSER THAN EVER, now at the York Theater in Manhattan, is getting rave reviews from New York’s toughest critics (check out what the NY P…
THE BURNT PART BOYS, book by Mariana Elder, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and music by Chris Miller, is the newest addition to MTI's Theatre on the Edge collection. Theatre on The Edge shows are m…
Last summer, Des Moines Community Playhouse, a community theater in Des Moines, Iowa, did something they had never done before " a main stage production of a musical running in repertory wit…
No one keeps track of the record number of decibels that the walls of the Minskoff Theatre have endured " especially since The Lion King roared into the place six years ago. But the record m…
I was sorry to learn that Richard Adler died on June 21. Ninety is a ripe old age, of course, but seeing another stalwart of The Golden Age of Musical Theatre leave us is never easy. What Ad…
The stars are shining brightly at the Teaneck Community Charter School in Teaneck, New Jersey which has won one of ten grand prizes in the nationwide "NBC's 'Smash': Make a Musical" program.…
Combine picturesque mountains with superb theatrical performances, and what do you get? Summertime in Western Utah. This summer, consider journeying to the Tuacahn Center for the Arts and th…
MTI is thrilled to once again celebrate the very best in high school musical theatre at the fourth annual National High School Musical Theater Awards, scheduled for Monday, June 25 at 7:30pm…
If this article's title — "The Sorry/Grateful Musical" " grabbed you, you are well within your rights to assume that it refers to COMPANY. After all, that's the show in which Stephen S…
"I'm proud to be one of the people to share this with new generations and maintain the flame." The voice of Gary John La Rosa, renowned director, resonates from the speakerphone. Our topic o…
