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Musical Theater News, Production Tips, New Musicals and More on The MTI Marquee Blog
Musical Theatre News and information for schools, community and professional theaters
Funders Myrna and Freddie Gershon Support the Program to Transform the School Once the lowest performing school in the State of Connecticut, Roosevelt is one of eight schools around the country turning itself around through the arts. Roosevelt School was selected last April to be part of Turnaround Arts, an initiative of the President’s Committee [...]
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Tim Federle, Broadway performer and author of Simon & Schuster’s, Better Nate Than Ever, (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), will serve as Master of Ceremonies as hundreds of students from middle and intermediate New York City Public Schools make their Broadway debut on stage at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44 St.) on Monday, [...]
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Educational theater consultancy firm iTheatrics is establishing an annual Sharidan Giles Technical Theater Award Scholarship. Giles was a respected theater production manager and technical director, who mentored countless technical theater artists and was one of the first women admitted into her local branch of The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists [...]
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We’re pleased to announce that iTheatrics is now accepting registrations for the 2014 Junior Theater Festival. Whether you’ve attended in the past or this is the first time you are bringing a group, you will be blown away. Take a look at the attached brochure and see all of the wonderful things we have planned [...]
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Created in 2011, the Gershwin Awards are presented annually to recognize high school students in the New York City Metropolitan Area for outstanding achievement in their high school’s musical theatre productions. Modeled after the National High School Musical Theater Awards (The Jimmy Awards), the ceremony will be held at CAP 21 on Saturday, May 18, [...]
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There’ll be a grand finale on the final day of the Junior Theater Festival ’13 in Atlanta. But before the big display of entertainment, the teachers repair to classrooms to learn a little more about theater crafts. Ken Billington, the Tony-winning lighting designer of no fewer than 97 Broadway shows, will now shed light on [...]
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Live! From Atlanta! It’s Saturday afternoon! At Junior Theater Festival ’13, Saturday morning saw 4,200 students head to 11 pods where they performed 15-minute excerpts from their musicals. And now that the teachers have congratulated their kids, they are now off to various workshops. Some attend one hosted by Playbill. On the scene are the [...]
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Atlanta lost a big NFL football game this past weekend, but it certainly emerged victorious in musical theater. The eighth annual Junior Theater Festival once again took over the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Vinings, Georgia. Last year, around 3,000 tweens and teens attended; this year, 4,200 youngsters will perform 15-minute excerpts from the musicals they [...]
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Whether you are attending solo for Professional Development to enrich your soul or bringing kids to “strut their stuff’, the JUNIOR THEATER FESTIVAL in Atlanta, GA 2013 promises to deliver. It never fails, never! The finely tuned recipe of musical theatre, passionate kids and teachers, and a dose of magic all in one contained venue [...]
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