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 ...

literary essay definitionNobody’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 from the chatter among ...

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 - 15th.  Again this year, the event has been underwritten by ...

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 show’s rental materials.After the musical had ...

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 presenting the Stephen Sondheim - Hugh Wheeler ...

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, we don’t see many productions of it.So we must take our hats ...

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 for his incredible composing abilities. One of those awards ...

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's literary resume is vastly diverse, ranging from musicals and plays to ...

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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 highlighted for his creation of the MTI Broadway Junior ...

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 Broadway musical, has now given birth to the ...