The show that was about to be presented was The Boy Friend, but what had happened 30 minutes before the performance turned the show into 42nd Street.Here at Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, there’s a magnificent program for kids ...

This weekend, The Who's Tommy is enjoying yet another permutation at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. Producing artistic director Jeremy Quinn is ...

2012 was a banner year for our Theatre for Young Audiences Collection (TYA), and we wanted to make sure you heard the news about five fun titles now available for licensing.  In case you don't know, TYA musicals are shows written for adults to ...

“Exciting New Musical 1963.”So said the circular yellow sticker that London Records pasted on the cover of every original cast album of Riverwind. Actually, if we’re going to get technical about it, Riverwind was really “Exciting New ...

WORKING is a down-to-earth yet elevating musical that features songs that are based on real interviews.  In the musical, twenty-six workers, including a parking lot attendant, corporate executive, schoolteacher, gas man, housewife, fireman, ...

Now that Bring It On is finishing its extended run on Broadway, the time will soon come when you’ll be able to present it, too. It’s Music Theatre International’s newest acquisition.Because the musical deals with cheerleaders, high school ...

The Stories Behind MTI's 2012 New Releases MISS SAIGON (SCHOOL EDITION), the LITTLE MERMAID (JR) and A LITTLE PRINCESS became the newest WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN after the LOVE STORY between BONNIE AND CLYDE turned them into TOXIC ...

Let’s face it: most directors of professional or community productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee cast too old.They seem to ignore the fact that this competition is supposed to be for teens. Do they fear that bookwriter Rachel ...

You don’t need to wait one day more to join the licensing revolution, because now the full-length version of LES MISÉRABLES is available to license in North America for a limited time, for performances starting in June 2013 (some regional ...

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the ...