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Category Archives: Approaches to Theatre Training꞉ Musical Theatre
There’s no art form as collaborative, or that requires as many different skill sets, as musical theatre. And with the current boom in the form (you may have heard of a show about a certain 10-dollar Founding Father), there’s a similar explosion in interest in new forms of multidisciplinary training, with programs training actors to write musicals, playwrights to write librettos, and trained singers to dance, act, or rap. Our annual special issue on training zeroes in on the latest trends in musical theatre programs.
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.
To Audition, or Not to Audition
For some musical theatre programs, working professionally while in school is not an option, while others leave it up to the students.
The Case for a B.A. in Musical Theatre
Training programs offering undergrad musical theatre degrees provide students with tools for life onstage and beyond.
