"Beyond its continuing vibrant life in the theater, 'Fiddler,' like no other musical before or since, has seeped into the culture more widely, functioning in sometimes contradictory ways, which makes sense, since the show’s essential ...

“That girl is brave,” a man said with great admiration permeating his voice.He was sitting behind me in the black-box Shaeberle Studio at Pace University in downtown New York. If a performance hadn’t been in progress, I would have turned ...

glasses onlineThere aren’t too many children's musicals that can advertise “Three Tony nominations, including Best Musical!”A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD can.Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey has mounted a nice production that runs ...

We're delighted to announce that this fall, two newer musicals from the MTI catalog will receive international premieres.  NEXT TO NORMAL opens October 11th in Furth, Bavaria and marks the show's first German language production.  The October 24th ...

It’s obvious we need to find better ways to teach all children to read. But I believe that literacy is not enough. We need to give children a passion for reading. Once ignited, this passion can be a fierce motivation for a young person to try to ...

Here’s some advice to directors who’d like to do Shrek.Don’t dread the thought of that heavy latex headpiece that your Shrek would wear.Do as Stephen L. Fredericks did in his production of SHREK at The Growing Stage in Netcong, New ...

MTI is thrilled to celebrate the continuous collaboration of theatrical authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.  Winners of Broadway’s triple crown – the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, as well as Grammy, Academy ...

One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories.It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer George Stiles thought it would make an ideal ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – September 25, 2013 - Leading theatrical licensor, Music Theatre International (MTI), creators of the MTI Broadway Junior Collection® (featuring 30 and 60-minute musicals designed for young performers) is launching a slate of ...

What would you do if a tree house in your neighborhood could transport you anywhere you wanted to go? While exploring one afternoon, siblings Jack and Annie discover a tree house full of books.  Jack looks through a book about dinosaurs and wishes ...