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 ...

Music Theatre International is proud to officially announce and introduce the 2011 honorees of the second-annual Freddie G. Teacher Experience scheduled for July 15, 16, and 17th in New York City. The Freddie G. Teacher Experience (named for Music ...

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 ...

"We can measure reading and math, so that is what we think is important. But if you cut the arts and music because you think that's peripheral, you're wrong because "actually central" are poetry, sports and anything that keeps kids in school." This ...

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 ...

MTI Chairman and CEO Freddie Gershon's latest article for The Huffington Post is an open letter to President Obama about the dire consequences of the impending cuts in arts education funding: Mister President: 40 million dollars for arts education ...

ALL IN LOVE is a little known musical from 1961 based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th Century, British comedy of manners, The Rivals, first staged in 1775! The book and lyrics are by Bruce Geller and the music is by Jack Urbont – and the ...