For theatres, tough economic times can mean doing a minimalist, four person play instead of a big glitzy musical. 11th Hour Theatre Company, however, wasn't about to let the economy determine its season. This Philadelphia Weekly article explains ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones took time out from her performance as Desiree in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC to answer some questions from Broadway.com and Bloomberg. In these interviews, Zeta-Jones ...
Congratulations to MTI author Benj Pasek (EDGES) and actor Andrew Keenan-Bolger (currently performing in the first national tour of MARY POPPINS)! Their youtube video, "Taste of Philly," just won Lonely Planet's My Journey contest.
To keep up ...
It's easy to feel helpless in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Even four years later, there are still areas of New Orleans that need to be rebuilt -- and stories of hardship and strength that need to be told. In the new documentary, After the ...
Life was fun, but oh so intense,
Everything was possible, and nothing made sense.
Few places embody these lines more than a university, as University of the Arts in Philadelphia demonstrated in late October with its concert presentation of ...
The first Broadway revival of RAGTIME opened on November 15 to a number of great reviews! The critics agree: RAGTIME is perhaps more appropriate now than it was when it first opened ten years ago.
Here are a few articles featuring this new ...
The holidays are right around the corner, and this year just might be the time to treat yourself to a different kind of holiday musical. That's what audiences are doing in Munster, Indiana. Theatre-goers are lining up to see an original musical ...
It's a fact of life that educators and parents don't always see eye-to-eye, but involving the law isn't exactly standard procedure.
That, however, is exactly what happened in Henderson, Nevada, when a Green Valley High School theatre class decided ...
Journey back to 1913 Georgia, where a Jewish man from New York was accused of murdering a 13 year old girl--and abducted from his cell and lynched. A new documentary airing tonight on PBS, The People Vs. Leo Frank revists the case composer/lyricist ...
"Knowing Frank Loesser was a rare and rewarding experience for many reasons," writer Cynthia Lindsay explains, "but the most important was that no matter who and what you were, he made you better. Whether it was your talent, your humor, your ...
