Broadway World - March 2, 2010 MEMPHIS Launches INSPIRE CHANGE Campaign to Bring Students to Broadway Read More... Houston Chronicle - June 19, 2009 Workshop trains teachers from across the U.S. to conquer tight budgets and other challenges of school shows. Read More... Staten Island Advance - April 21, 2009 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – It's mid-April and that means one thing: In about two months your kids will be home from school on summer vacation. They probably will wake up bright-eyed... Read More... The Freelance-Star - April 16, 2009 The iTheatrics All-Stars will peform 'The Sign of the Seahorse' on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on Saturday. Read More... Sioux City Journal - February 27, 2009 Target grant sends kids to the theater BRONSON, Iowa -- Mary Siepker, a Lawton-Bronson first-grade teacher, was awarded an $800 Target field trip grant Friday, according to a statement from Target. Read More... The Brooklyn Daily Eagle- October 17, 2008 Visitation Eighth Graders Go Wonka Faculty director Karen Peters and music director Brian Worsdale have a hit on their hands. The Visitation eighth graders have a tradition to entertain the entire school with a play. This year’s bunch decided on “Willy Wonka: The Musical,...” Read More... The Jim Henson Company - June 2, 2008 Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas On Stage! - Podcast Clcik on the podcast in the left side menu. Listen Now... NEW YORK MAGAZINE - May 30, 2008 Best Musical Ever: ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ Coming to the Stage Christmas in May The Jim Henson Company announces that classic 1979 Muppet special Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is being adapted into a stage musical. Read More... VARIETY - May 29, 2008 Muppet's 'Christmas' tunes up The Jim Henson Co. has teamed with iTheatrics to develop a stage tuner version of its 1977 TV special "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas." Read More... Playbill - May 29, 2008 South Pacific's Gattelli to Direct Stage Version of "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" A stage version of the classic Jim Henson holiday favorite "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" is currently in the works. Read More... BUDDYHOLLYWOOD.COM - May 29, 2008 HENSON HOLIDAY CLASSIC TO BECOME STAGE MUSICAL The Jim Henson Company and iTheatrics to Develop Musical Stage Version of ‘Emmet Otter’ Collaboration to Adapt Classic Holiday Favorite to Musical Theater. Read More... THE MUPPET NEWSFLASH - May 27, 2008 "Emmet Otter" Stage Show Takes Shape As reported back in February, The Jim Henson Company has partnered with iTheatrics to develop a musical stage adaptation of the classic holiday special "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas." Read More... The Ann Arbor News - May 18, 2008 In Pioneer theater, the future On Saturday, May 3, I had the honor of witnessing Pioneer High School perform the world premiere of "Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka,'' a new musical that I wrote with Leslie Bricusse. Read More... On Board - January 28, 2008 10 Secrets of Producing an All-School Musical Their are a myrid of arguments for supporting arts in education, and one of the most compelling is that high-quality theater and music productions bring parents and the community into schools. Read More... PDF 136K The Ann Arbor News - April 27, 2008 Pioneer theater group gets unusual opportunity Students at Pioneer High School are getting an unusual opportunity: the chance to help shape a new, professionally written stage musical. Read More... The Freelance Star - November 29, 2007 Banishing Boredom's Easy with a Classic Story - Delightful Tales at this 'Tollbooth' For more than 40 years, Norton Juster's classic work, "The Phantom Tollbooth" has carried thousands of young readers into a topsy-turvy world of hilarious hazards. Read More... The Washington Times - November 22, 2007 'Tollbooth' pays dividends "Mom, I'm bored. There's nuthin' to do." For every parent who has heard this - and every child who has uttered these nerve-curdling words - there's Milo, the ennui-riddled young hero of "The Phantom Tollbooth." Read More... The Washington Post - November 20, 2007 Cleverness Paves the Way At 'Tollbooth' "So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible," two eccentric monarchs remark in the classic children's book "The Phantom Tollbooth." The new stage version of the tale, premiering at the Kennedy Center Family Theater, bears out this royal wisdom. Read More... The D.C. Examiner- November 17 & 18, 2007 Norton Juster's classic novel is now a family-friendly event at the Kennedy Center Norton Juster wrote "The Phantom Toolbooth" for his own amusement. Fifty years later, Juster and Tony Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick have adapted the novel for the stage as a musical to enchant today's youngsters and parents who loved it as children. Read More... PDF 408k