What is the Junior Theater Festival?
People often ask, “What is the Junior Theater Festival?” Simply put, the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) is a weekend dedicated to celebrating young people and musical theater. Produced by iTheatrics and Theater ...
The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey.It’s the type of ...
So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production?Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he was well aware of the potential dangers of putting John ...
While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt classic.“Marriage -- the way it used to be ... and the ...
At the York Theatre Company, Closer Than Ever closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run.The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened on June 20 was originally scheduled to run merely through ...
I’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz.Not simply because Moisés Kaufman’s production is wonderful, or because Jessica Chastain, ...
"Every moment in life is an audition," writes Tim Federle in Better Nate Than Ever. If that’s true, Federle’s audition as a writer gets him the part as The Country’s Most Promising Young Adult Novelist. This is the finest book for teens that ...
With a flexible cast size and featured roles for both men and woman of all ages, WILLY WONKA is the perfect addition to your season and sure to be an audience favorite. Whether you are interested in the full-length show, the TYA version or either ...
Cast of Children of Eden at Wellesley PlayersIt’s never been produced on Broadway and its London production was short-lived. But these facts haven’t kept one theater after another from doing CHILDREN OF EDEN.Here in Watertown, ...
Longtime Bristol Township Harry S. Truman High School teacher Lou Volpe is being honored with the first-ever “MTI Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre Education” by Music Theatre International (MTI), one of the world’s largest licensors of ...