590 stories from Music Theatre International
At a recent dinner with like-minded Broadway enthusiasts, one told of a director whose vision hadn’t worked for what could have otherwise been a really good musical. Soon after, anothe…
License Disney’s The Little Mermaid Today!* In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Based on o…
Honor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the st…
So why would the new musical LOVING REPEATING – called “a play within a lecture” – make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame? Well, for one thing, in …
Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is an outrageous and savagely funny fantasy about people, their pleasures, pains, and perversions, a penetrating satire on insanity R…
On August 11th Signature Theatre opens their production of THE FIX by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe. We sat down with director Eric Schaeffer to get the inside scoop on the show the Washingt…
Perhaps you’ve been debating whether or not to stage BILLY ELLIOT at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play i…
New Jersey’s first Superhero takes the stage in this monster of a comedy based on the classic cult film. The Toxic Avenger, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadw…
I've never been a Smokey Joe's Café fan. When the show opened, I used the word "putrid" in my review, which prompted the producer to write and complain. And yet, while I was in Lincoln, Neb…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre From the Golden Age of the movie musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers finds its perfect partner in the Regent…
NEW YORK, N.Y. " July 27, 2015 – Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) http://www.mtishows.com, has secured worldwide licensing rights to Broadway's HONEYMOON IN…
ABC’s Nightline recently featured a story on Disney’s The Lion King Experience and the effect of arts education in schools. Watch the episode here. Apply Now for The Lion King Ex…
When the term “family show” is used, it’s usually a euphemism. What it more often means is a show that little kids will like or love. Mom and Dad, however, won’t be a…
Get ready to die with laughter because the new film version of Lucky Stiff is available on iTunes and On Demand July 24th – http://radi.al/LuckyStiff The Off-Broadway musical fa…
It happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precise…
The Nominees for the 2015 Emmy Awards were announced Thursday morning, July 16, 2015 by So You Think You Can Dance Host Cat Deeley and breakout star of Orange is the New Black, Uzo Ad…
Eubie the Elf is on a musical mission to bring Christmas cheer to a town on Santa’s naughty list. A new musical comedy by Grammy Award-winning and TONY Award-nominated composer and lyr…
In the summer of 2013, City Center launched Encores! Off-Center, a new series featuring seminal Off-Broadway musicals filtered through the lens of today's most innovative artists. The To…
The response to Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more impr…
The perennial favorite 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month. Since becoming available for licensing in 2011 this TONY winner has been prod…
Eight outstanding educators from schools and performing arts centers around the country will work one-on-one with Broadway greats at the 6th Annual FREDDIE G FELLOWSHIP July 8th – 11th…
The late, great acerbic comic Phyllis Diller had plenty of memorable one-liners, but there's one I remember most. With half-closed eyes that said she'd seen more fire than rain, Diller drone…
Music Theatre International has been a proud partner of The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) Turnaround Arts initiative since 2013. The program has been eno…
Earlier this year, Music Theatre International, the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) and iTheatrics launched JumpStart Theatre, a three-year scalable pilot program designed to brin…
How does a manual become a musical? I posed that question last Friday when I discussed a recent production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. The 1961 smash hit remains the…
