Eubie the Elf is on a musical mission to bring Christmas cheer to a town on Santa's naughty list. A new musical comedy by Grammy Award-winning and TONY Award-nominated composer and lyricist, Harry Connick, Jr.; The Happy Elf tells the tale of Eubie ...

In the summer of 2013, City Center launched Encores! Off-Center, a new series featuring seminal Off-Broadway musicals filtered through the lens of today’s most innovative artists.  The Tony-honored Encores! musical theater series has been hailed ...

The response to Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more impressed with the many dance numbers choreographed by ...

The perennial favorite 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month. Since becoming available for licensing in 2011 this TONY winner has been produced by 3000 theatres worldwide. Featuring an unforgettable ...

Eight outstanding educators from schools and performing arts centers around the country will work one-on-one with Broadway greats at the 6th Annual FREDDIE G FELLOWSHIP July 8th - 11th.  The event has once again been underwritten by Myrna and ...

The late, great acerbic comic Phyllis Diller had plenty of memorable one-liners, but there’s one I remember most.With half-closed eyes that said she’d seen more fire than rain, Diller droned “I flew an airline so cheap that instead of ...

Marty Johnson (iTheatrics), MTI President Drew Cohen and Cindy Ripley (iTheatrics) lead workshops at the Turnaround Arts Summer Leadership Retreat. Music Theatre International has been a proud partner of The President’s Committee on the ...

Music Theatre International’s John Prignano presented a check for $10,000 to EdTA Executive Director Julie Cohen Theobald, fulfilling MTI’s pledge to match grassroots fundraising for EdTA’s new JumpStart Theatre initiative. Photo by Don ...

How does a manual become a musical?I posed that question last Friday when I discussed a recent production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. The 1961 smash hit remains the only show to win a Best Musical Tony and Pulitzer Prize -- ...

Matt Kulling of The Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin profiled teacher Holly Stanfield and her students as they prepare for the International Thespian Festival. Read the outstanding article below. Watching Holly Stanfield guide actors and ...