After claiming 8 Tony Awards in 2007 including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score, SPRING AWAKENING found its rightful place among the most prestigious of musicals.  And now, SPRING AWAKENING is ready to find its place in your theatre’s ...

Winner of the TONY® “TRIPLE CROWN” for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK, AVENUE Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart.  AVENUE Q (Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Book by Jeff Whitty) is a laugh-out-loud musical ...

SPRING AWAKENING is a musical based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play of the same name. Though bookwriter/lyricist Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik are fairly faithful to the original story, this is definitely an adaptation with a ...

Some of us close to Arthur believe he wrote himself into characters on the stage and one of the people closest to him believes that Arthur and Rose were one. -Freddie Gershon MTI's Chairman and CEO Freddie Gershon shares a touching tribute to his ...

Last summer Playbill.com reported an exciting new twist on one of MTI’s shows – an all-female cast of 1776! (Read the article here, and the original Marquee blog post about it here). In the article, Keith Edwards, son of the show’s ...

DAMN YANKEES features a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, a team also remembered fondly for their musical THE PAJAMA GAME. “Faust meets baseball” in this fun and touching show based on Wallop's ...

Music Theatre International is deeply saddened by the loss of beloved librettist, playwright, screenwriter, director and friend Arthur Laurents.  Arthur died in Manhattan on May 5th and was 93 years old.  Among his many accomplishments, Arthur was ...

MTI wishes to address an important copyright issue surrounding a recent production of RENT at Maryland's Towson University in which director Diane Smith-Sadak cut lines from the show creating an alternate ending. BroadwayWorld.com reported on the ...

THE APPLE TREE with a score by lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Composer Jerry Bock (best known for shows like FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME) and a book by Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith, THE APPLE TREE is a unique adaptation.Rather than ...

The Union Jack dresses clearly make a great finale in SHOUT! So we’ve put those dresses to work in marketing the show since they are such attention-grabbers off stage as well as on. an expository essay Depending on the configuration of your ...