Coming Soon: SAVI in the Classroom An online class for musical theater teachers The SAVI System of Singer-Actor Training is a powerful new pedagogy for training musical theater performers that was developed over forty years working with singing actors in the rehearsal room and the classroom. It is a practical, “savvy” approach to building essential ..read more

As they did for so many others in the last half century, the works of Stephen Sondheim defined what the musical theater could be for me. I was seventeen years old when I encountered my first Sondheim musical, Company, with the original cast onstage in the West End of London. For the next forty-nine years ..read more

In a recent New Yorker interview about the making of his film “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” Lin-Manuel Miranda recounts some words of advice he got from Stephen Sondheim. While working on “Hamilton,” Lin says, I would send him what I was working on every few years or so, and he said, “Lin, with hip-hop, ten bars ..read more

I’ve just returned from the Musical Theater Educators Alliance conference in San Diego, where over a hundred of the best and brightest educators from the field of musical theater spent three exciting days discussing the latest innovations and trends. It was an amazing experience, and if you don’t know about this terrific organization, click here ..read more

The holidays are here and the year is coming to a close. It’s a time to savor the fruits of the harvest, to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year and do a little crystal ball-gazing into the months ahead. This holiday, there’s an especially rich harvest for me to enjoy thanks to the publication ..read more