How to Dance in Ohio Waltzes Up to MTI

The exuberant coming-of-age comedy joins MTI.

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1660 Vine the Musical Now Available for Licensing

This show will go viral on your stage!

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A Year of Sondheim Milestones

We'd like to propose a toast to these six Sondheim titles!

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HAIRSPRAY and HAIRSPRAY JR. Start a Summer Tradition in Des Moines

By EllaRose Chary on July 02, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Education and Arts Advocacy | Tags: Des Moines Community Playhouse, diversity, Jr., Kathy Pingel, Marc Shaiman, mark o'donnell, Scott Wittman, thomas meehan, MTI Broadway Junior Collection, Show Spotlight

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 with a full-blown kids’ musical. The shows? HAIRSPRAY and a ...

Filichia Features: Remembering Richard Adler

By Peter Filichia on June 25, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Damn Yankees, Filichia Features

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 Adler accomplished in the '50s will never be accomplished ...

Audiences Are 'Wowed' in Western Utah

By Corinne Fitamant on June 22, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight

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 the Utah Shakespeare Festival for exciting upcoming events. ...

Filichia Features: The Sorry/Grateful Musical

By Peter Filichia on June 21, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

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 Sondheim stated that marriage can make someone sorry ...

Carrying On FIDDLER's "Traditions"

By Whitney Urish on June 15, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight, Announcements | Tags: General MTI News, Show Spotlight

“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 of conversation is one of which his knowledge knows ...

Filichia Features: There’s a Parade in the Town of Bloomfield

By Peter Filichia on June 14, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Just because they didn’t applaud Parade doesn’t mean that they didn’t like it.online loansAt the opening night performance of the 1998 musical at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey, silence often greeted singers after they’d ...

Misbehavin' in Missouri

By Corinne Fitamant on June 08, 2012

in Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Show Spotlight

During the month of June, The Robert G. Reim Theatre in Kirkwood, Missouri will feel less like a theatre, and more like a Harlem jazz club in the 1930's, when STAGES ST. LOUIS presents the Tony award winning musical revue, Ain't Misbehavin. The ...

Filichia Features: In Comes Company

By Peter Filichia on June 08, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Precisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of Company at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again -- at the GeVa Theatre Center in Rochester.I was sure that this audience wouldn’t react ...

From Lori Anne to Logainne - Spelling Bees are Front and Center!

By Corinne Fitamant on May 31, 2012

in Announcements, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: In the News, Show Spotlight

The final round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee airs tonight, May 31st, at 8pm on ESPN. Six-year-old contestant Lori Anne Madison has made history by becoming the youngest person to qualify for the Bee. Unfortunately, Lori Anne misspelled ...

Filichia Features: Here's Charley!

By Peter Filichia on May 25, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Like Mrs. Lovett, “Sometimes ideas just pop into me head.” Only mine are more benign than hers, thank the Lord.With Encores! announcing its 2012-2013 season this week – Fiorello followed by It’s a Bird …It’s a Plane … It’s Superman ...