Peter Filichia

In a way, the Junior Theater Festival has the wrong name.Someone not familiar with the magnificent two-day event that occurs each January in Atlanta might assume that the “Junior” means that the festival is a mini-version of a major theater ...

When we last left Nate Foster, we didn’t want to.Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle’s young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old native of Jankburg, Pennsylvania.Where?Put it this ...

Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I’m looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four.The Moorestown Theatre Company is offering Thoroughly Modern Millie, the ...

Whenever someone has asked me the question, “If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who’s ever lived, who would it be?” my answer has always been “Thornton Wilder. I’d love to chat with the man who pointed out how precious life is ...

Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree.Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too-quickly.So start planning your December 2014 ...

William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season.“It’s hard to be smart.”Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another most every day, I was reminded of it when I saw ...

You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from Shrek, but do you know the musical called The Story of My Life? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s song does. ...

When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template.In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway originals. All the lines and songs have been kept ...

It’s a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music.So why not a musical about math?Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It’s THE MAIN STREET KIDS’ CLUB: A MATHSTART MUSICAL.It ...

Even those super-intellectual students at Harvard University have been known to say on their rare off-hours “Hey, kids! Let’s put on a show!”And so, an intrepid band of undergrads got together to do the musical version of Little Women, just ...