How about doing Ain't Misbehavin' as a midnight show?Of course there’s nothing wrong with presenting the Tony-winning smash hit at your usual 8 p.m. start or by having matinees at 2 or 3 p.m. Thousands have done so and have seen felicitous ...

Cora (Madi Rosenthal - center), surrounded by the Tipsy Nurse (Sarah Boyle), Mrs. Schroeder (Jackie Daaleman), John (Michael Poyntz), dancer Lucy Hale, townsperson Connor Wynne and June (Lauren Echausse), feigns sympathy for the poor in "Me and My ...

At the turn of the new century, few Broadway insiders would have believed it.Yes, this musical called Urinetown had been produced way off-off-Broadway in the Fringe, and quite a few people who’d attended had liked it. However, with such a ...

Yes, the opening song is called “Bless This Land,” but let’s also bless the York Theatre Company for reminding us that Tenderloin is a blessedly good musical.James Morgan’s troupe finished its Sheldon Harnick festival with a solidly ...

Have you ever seen a production of Les Miserables in which "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" had full chairs and no tables at all? Leave it to Aubrey Berg, the chair of the musical theater department at the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of ...

Dylan Mejil, Kiki Managuerra, Ethan Morales and Karl Campodonico.How long have I been attending community theater productions? Let’s put it this way: when I started, Betty White could have still given birth.And yet, here at the Bronx House, ...

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 ...