At the Junior Theater Festival ’14, Saturday night and all day Sunday are the best times to be in the MTI ShowSpace. After those many events in small breakout rooms, how nice to have all 4,000 of us together. I love walking up to the stage, turning ...

There can’t be many places in the world where an audience applauds after the speaker says, “It’s not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship.”But here at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, the teachers in a workshop agree with Linda ...

In a way, it’s the musical theater equivalent of speed dating.You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours – but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies that have come to Atlanta to appear in the Junior Theater ...

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 ...

MURDER BALLAD, the hot new show that had critics and audiences raving is now available for licensing! MURDER BALLAD is the dramatic story of a love triangle gone wrong centering on Sara, an uptown girl who seems to have it all, but whose downtown ...

The Nebraska Theatre Caravan is launching a national tour of THE FANTASTICKS that reimagines the classic show with a steampunk sensibility. Talk about a time-proven audience-pleaser! "Try to Remember" a time when this charming, romantic musical ...

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 ...

Tony-nominated composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Andy Jones (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Little Mermaid), Ashley Brown (the original Mary Poppins), Merle Dandridge (Tarzan, Aida), Josh Strickland (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 ...