On Wednesday, November 27th, the MTI office will close early at 1 PM ET for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Office operations will resume on Monday, December 2nd.
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 ...
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 ...
With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan ANNIE charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. And now, alongside her signature pal dog, Sandy, she's set her sights on making us grin from ear ...
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 ...
Maltby and Shire's CLOSER THAN EVER (playing in NYC at The York Theatre Company's Saint Peter's theatre) has now been extended through August 25th. Read the fabulous reviews and get ticketing information here. In the meantime, here's a sampling of ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE BURNT PART BOYS, book by Mariana Elder, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and music by Chris Miller, is the newest addition to MTI’s Theatre on the Edge collection. Theatre on The Edge shows are marked by the fact that they have garnered a ...
Last summer, Des Moines Community Playhouse, a community theater in Des Moines, Iowa, did something they had never done before – a main stage production of a musical running in repertory with a full-blown kids’ musical. The shows? HAIRSPRAY and a ...
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 ...
