Musicals

Musical theatre is a tough and over-crowded industry. Yet, despite the huge competition, many performers find auditioning difficult with little kno...

A fascinating look at the gay and lesbian influence on the American stage by an internationally-recognized authority on the topic From the genteel...

Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally ...

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American televis...

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The oppor...

Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism. No...

'… love creates something that was not there before.' – HedwigJohn Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened on Valenti...

From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the ...

A comprehensive introduction to film music, this book provides a concise and illuminating summary of the process of film scoring, as well as a succ...

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popula...

On the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history. That’s no hyperbole. Surrounded by a throng of ecstatic fans (3,165 to be exact),...

Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Plac...

As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic ...

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they p...

How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to absence, can perform multi...

How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to absence, can perform multi...

An insider's guide to achieving that dream career – by one of the brightest stars in musical theatre. Being in a West End or Broadway musical is t...

“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and a...

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winne...

The Sound of Music is firmly embedded in the DNA of a generation. But what was it like to be part of all this? For seven children and young adults,...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid th...

Welcome to The Empire Theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid th...

As a playwright screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving exhilarating and provoc...

One of the best known and best loved movies around the world, The Sound of Music tells the story of family, romance, and finding joy amid the polit...

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and . . . Dorothy Fields. These are the giants of the golden age of musical theater...

In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including ...

In recent years there has been a remarkable resurgence in the success of film musicals. Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (20...

‘Stand. Breathe. Look. Try to empty my mind. Somehow, for some reason, I have been brought to this place to tell this story, now. So tell it. That’...

2014 Lucille Lortel Award NominationsOutstanding Choreographer Marguerite DerricksOutstanding Lead Actress in a Musical Barrett Wilbert Weed2014 ...

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical. It's 1963 and the Dame Dorothea Do...

'My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is just chuck yourself in at the deep end.' Liam is fifteen and he's just signed up ...

In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the Earth's water supply has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The privilege to pee is reg...

A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What ...

In a small town in the Old West the mayor can't keep his people from running away or dying at the hands of the local brute. And just when things c...

Characters: 13 male, 6 female. Various sets. Winner! 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence Winner! National Music Theatre Ne...