The theatre teacher will be celebrated at the 76th Annual Tony Awards June 11.
Two students selected by the panel of Broadway judges will subsequently represent the greater New York area at The Jimmy Awards in June.
The 2023 Best Musical Tony nominee has invited performing groups from NYC-area high schools to perform a song from the show onstage at the Booth.
The Tony-nominated musical has been adapted for young performers.
Adapted from Jeff Kinney's popular children's book series, the musical premiered at Minnesota's Children's Theatre Company in 2016.
The school was slated to perform the Adam Szymkowicz-penned play until parent outrage over gay and non-binary characters forced a cancellation.
Broadway Bound aims to introduce the community to non-performance careers in theatre.
The contest supports up-and-coming musical theatre writers looking to break into the commercial industry.
The biting satire, joining Concord's Samuel French imprint, made its Broadway debut in 2022.
The fellowship is designed to support Black creatives interested in film and television.
Bleu first hosted The National High School Musical Theatre Awards in 2021.
The Oscar-winning composer will lead the developmental programs for composers and lyricists.
The summer event connects theatre educators with Broadway professionals for interactive workshops, discussions, and more.
This past school year, the organization helped build connections between 10,600 students and the performing arts.
The Premier Communities for Theatre Education distinction recognizes schools' safe and robust theatre education programs.
For many, the Tudor pop musical was their first Broadway show.
Based on the cult classic film franchise, the musical will become available for licensing later this spring.
School officials say they were trying to protect students by canceling a play with queer characters, but students say they are actually feeling more unsafe.
The annual event saw more than 100 NYC public school students make their Broadway debuts at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Find out which exceptional high school productions will perform at the annual festival in Bloomington, Indiana, this year.
Richard Frazier, Cheryl Williams, and Jeff Hall are the group's newest faces.
The work features a score by Pump Boys and Dinettes' Jim Wann and David Shenton, with a book by Emily Loesser and Don Stephenson.
The SIX and Hamilton stars are among the performers on Broadway Records' iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival 20th Anniversary EP, releasing March 15.
The annual event will see more than 100 NYC public school students make their Broadway debut at the Broadhurst Theatre.
The company will welcome high school students to shadow non-performance careers in theatre.
The grant program, aimed at helping bring theatre to schools in communities of color, is inspired by the vision of late producer Craig Zadan.
Now in its second year, the paid internship program will hire 12 interns for the summer program.
The community is fighting back with a petition to get Carroll High School's production of Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood back on.
Cardinal High School will go forward with the William Finn-Rachel Sheinkin musical—with some author-approved changes.
The Broadway theatre owner and producing company is striving to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the industry with a paid internship program.
The move is the latest case in a troubling trend of classroom censorship nationwide.
The organization is speaking out after recent cancellations of Indecent and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
The contest supports up and coming musical theatre writers looking to break into the commercial industry.
Launched in 2017, the Broadway League initiative looks to ensure every NYC public high school student sees a Broadway show before graduation.
The district superintendent cited "vulgarity" in the "dialogue and song lyrics" that are “not suitable for our preteen and teenage students."
The Tony-nominated Carole King jukebox bio musical played Broadway from 2014 to 2019.
Debra Messing starred in the work's Broadway debut last season.
Tony-winning designer Beowulf Boritt founded the financial grant program to foster early career designers from historically excluded backgrounds.
"Be the Change" invites U.K. schools to take part in the competition inspired by the musical's "For Good."
The upcoming release follows three seasons of Kushner's podcast Dear Multi-Hyphenate.
Douglas Lyons founded the developmental branch of The Directors Company.
Playbill caught up with Erika Henningsen, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell, Kyle Selig, and Krystina Alabado as Mean Girls JR. premiered at Junior Theater Festival Atlanta.
The first-of-its-kind class will be available to dance and musical theatre students of all gender identities at the Massachusetts institution.
Ten schools in low-income communities have won a complimentary license to perform the musical, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The fellowship program provides participants with financial and project support, as well as mentorship and networking opportunities.
Students are alleging that their upcoming production of the Paula Vogel play was shut down in an act of anti-LGBTQ censorship.
Professional theatre artists will lead children and teens in learning skills for on and off the stage.
The new offering will support playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists throughout the United States.
iTheatrics' annual event brings youth groups from around the world together in Atlanta for a weekend celebration of theatre.
Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the musical played a world premiere run Off-Broadway at MCC Theater in 2019.