Music Theatre International (MTI), the world’s premier theatrical licensor, will play a leading role on the digital stage with the launch of its free online community, MTI ShowSpaceä (www.mtishowspace.com), it was announced by Jason Cocovinis, MTI’s Director of Marketing.   Dedicated to people who love and live musical theatre, MTI ShowSpaceä offers thespians and fans a space to connect with anyone and everyone involved in the theatrical process, and serves as a continuously expanding free knowledge database so that members can make their next show their best show.  Unlike other social networking outlets, MTI has built an online community that is specific to the practice of putting on a show. Continue Reading

The intensely dichotomous period of development known as adolescence has long been the stuff of Broadway engendering. Fraught with billowing hormones and mercurial urges, these characters practically invite their creators to shelve out ruminating power ballads ripe for the belting. Continue Reading

Historically both public patrons and the inner-workings of theatre’s most enlightened circles have been quick to define the quintessential New York musical as a celebratory tour-de-force of the city’s heralded landmarks that brim with colorful tunes and upper class sentimentality. Yet in the midst of a nation divided on immigration policy and outsourcing methods, the young composer Lin-Manuel Miranda scrapped the boarder debates and police brutality alarms for a more heartfelt exploration of cultural identity. Arriving at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway over a year ago, the celebratory In the Heights continues to stake its claim as the New York, or rather American, musical reborn; one that unabashedly appreciates the sheer notion of community and willfully scoffs at the cultural debates it can inflame. Continue Reading