Blog Filter By The Audience

My reaction to American Repertory Theater’s recent announcement of its upcoming season was pretty much in line with my reactions to similar announcements from any number of other laudable regional theater companies: I immediately texted some friends to begin planning a series of theater-fueled excursions to Boston, wherein we would catch the world premiere of Waitress and, even […]

The post I Look Around For (Musicals): Finding Musical Theater Everywhere You Go appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

If your social media is anything like mine, you’ve probably heard about the Hand To God discount that was announced at the beginning of the week. From people excitedly anticipating the show to posts acting as PSAs for cheap ticket availability, I noticed much more chatter about the show this past week than I’ve seen […]

The post Give A Hand for Hand To God appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Tourists and Musical Theatre enthusiasts alike flock to New York City every year to bask in the glow of the Theatre District marquees and be a part of the magic happening eight times a week. Some come to see a specific show, a specific star, or a specific writer’s work; others come to cross off […]

The post Let Us Entertain You: Professional Plans from a Concierge appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Repeat after me: A medium rating is the best you can do. In the wake of the release of the highly anticipated Into the Woods film adaptation, the Musical Theatre community is again preparing to watch one of its sacred entities brought to life on the silver screen. On February 13th, 2015, the intimate and […]

The post A Medium Rating appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Don’t blame them for being confused. Over eight million people call New York City home, hustling and bustling on the island and in the surrounding boroughs day in and day out.  But there is another population that makes up a large part of the city in fluctuating degrees throughout the year.  We complain about them, […]

The post Wait… I’m Confused appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

How do you guys feel about theatre criticism? Pro, con? I struggle with it myself. I would guess a large portion of us in the theatre community do, because it’s innately a complicated art form. Theatre reviewing is an art form, not a science, and yet the way it can affect work—especially new work—can be […]

The post In Which I Try to Articulate My Feelings on Theatre Criticism appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

I teach children’s theatre. At least, that’s what I tell people. I’ll also toss choreographer, conductor, artistic director, prompter, stage manager, director, coach, psychic, eternal optimist, and president and founder of the “I’m Sorry Guys, but We’re Not Performing Frozen Today” Club. Teachers, I tip all my hats to you fellow masters of multi-tasking! When […]

The post The Newest Audience appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

(To begin this week, if you have not read the most recent article by Drew Gasparini and an archived favorite post by Georgia Stitt, do yourself a favor and read them – absorb them. There may be no more important message for new writers, theatre-goers, and artists of all types than these two pieces. They […]

The post Giving Them What They Want: Engaging Regional Theatres Before and After the Show appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Hello New Musical Theatre Green Room readers! My name is Nikki Shah, and I am one of the new bloggers for this fall. I am incredibly excited to be writing about one of my passions, and I’d like to start off by introducing myself and how I got to love new musical theatre. One night, […]

The post New Musical Theatre, New Audiences appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

I always thought the different reputation of musical theatre in Germany would have effects on fans, how they behave and what they do here in Germany. But when I recently read Stacy Wolf’s Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical and it included a full chapter about fangirls in the 21st century, […]

The post How we do it in Germany: We Are These Kids appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Every time you open a new play, or an old play in a new way, you run the risk of failure – and at the same time, the only chance of a creative success. A look back at the 2013-14 Broadway season might make you think that someone said that in response to the dearth […]

The post Hallie Decreed that Theater was Essential: 4 Lessons from the Federal Theatre Project appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Hello, readers! So if you’ve been following my posts, you’ll know that I love to tackle tips for writers – from how to write a stellar song cycle to the need to secure rights to your source material. But this week, I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind a lot recently. […]

The post Unpopular Opinion: It’s Okay to Have an Unpopular Opinion appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

From my last posts here you might have gotten the impression that in Germany we don’t really value contemporary musical theatre as in ‘new musicals.’ And for the most people from the academic theatre studies field it might be true. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in theatre studies last fall (my minors were as amazing […]

The post How We Do It in Germany: (New) Musical Theatre in Suburbia appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

I recently attended an evening of philosophy and music, led by Professor Bill Brewer of King’s College London, which explored the relationship between music and the mind. The relationship between the two may seem to be self explanatory, but the aim of the discussion was to explore and ask the question why some music is […]

The post “My New Philosophy” – The Connection Between Music and the Mind appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

Last year my cousin Joseph, the other big theatre fan in our family, turned 16. As his self-proclaimed mentor and teacher of all things theatrical, I wanted to get him an amazing gift, and as it so happened, around that time the perfect thing fell into my lap. I was cleaning out my desk in […]

The post Growing Up Thespian in the Digital Age, or Why I Feel Old appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.

In my last post I talked about how theatre is produced in Germany for the most part, how our government and the states and cities fund what artists to in theatres. I also mentioned that this could – in a way – be influenced by how proud we (sometimes) still are to be the country of Goethe […]

The post How we do it in Germany: Society and how it affects Theatre appeared first on The NewMusicalTheatre.com Green Room.