People Who Teach People
The craft of musical theatre is passed between generations—from teacher to student and from student to teacher.
Category Archives: January 2017
Musical Theatre Students Are Becoming Quadruple Threats
Musical theatre artists are no longer just actors, writers, or singers, and schools are finding new ways to train them.
Beyond Training: The Role of Theatre Educators
Theatre educators model, shape, develop and even work alongside their students.
Where Do You Learn to Write Musicals?
Seven composers, lyricists, and book writers share where and how they trained to create work for the stage.
Not Only in New York: 13 Musical Theatre Programs Outside of Manhattan
Think you have to study in the Big Apple to fulfill those Broadway dreams? Change that tune.
This Month in Theatre History
From ACT’s San Francisco move to the premieres of ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ and ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ January was hardly a chilly month for theatre.
Theatre: A Counterweight for Heavy Times
The nonprofit theatre’s mandate to serve as a town hall, a sort of secular church for the democratic spirit, has seldom been more salient.
Not Just Black and White: ‘Othello’ in America
The history of Othello in the U.S. tells a story of race, erasure, and reclamation.
Letters to the Editor: Data Smackdown, Chi-Town Dramaturgs
Readers wrote in to quibble about facts surrounding a recent convening on funding for the arts, as well as a lack of representation from the Windy City.
Bob’s Broadway Broadcast
The chairman of NBC Entertainment works in TV, but he’s bringing theatre into people’s homes and onto their stages in every way he can.
