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Join Us This Friday!
This Friday, join us for a sneak peek of Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis. Discover a new smash-hit musical theater song that will get stuck in your head for weeks on end. (TRY...
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Interview: Emily Etheredge and the Costume Team
By Kayleen Peña (Producing Assistant) Our fashion expert and her two protégés were at rehearsal recently, taking measurements and planning hair and makeup. I caught up with Emily Etheredge (our...
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Interview: Micheal Blasini
Early Bird Ticket sales end TODAY. Make sure to order your tickets before prices go up!By Kayleen Peña (Producing Assistant) Micheal Blasini, our choreographer, was hard at work today with the cast of...
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Jimmy! Sneak Peek Recap (i.e. Last Friday Night)
Producing assistant Kayleen Peña shares her thoughts on last Friday's Jimmy! Sneak Peek at the residence of board member (and goddess of all things artistic) Kate Quarfordt.Oh, Friday night. It’s a...
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Interview: Stephanie Malaspina and Genesis Ruiz
1. We're looking for student musicians who want to be a part of Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis this summer. If you play acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, or mandolin (and...
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Interview: Jacob Houser
Want a discount on Jimmy! tickets? Get $5 off on General Admission tickets from now until Saturday with our Jimmy! trivia challenge. Just go to http://jimmy.bpt.me, click on Enter a Password or...
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Interview: Justin Fenniman
Bonus discount code! In celebration of the start of tech week, you can use the code timemosheen to get $20 general admission tickets. (That's almost 50% off!) Click here to get your $20 tickets...
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Come See Jimmy!
Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis premiered last Friday at the Irondale Center. Producing assistant Amiko Gonzalez talks about the challenging process of taking a new musical...
View ArticleCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
OUR SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 6, 2014. Submit your script today!The National Theatre for Student Artists (NTSA) is currently accepting play and musical scripts for our 2014-2015...
View ArticleThinking About a Future in Design?
This year, NTSA will be hosting Design Launch -- a series of workshops providing high school students with training and guidance from professional Broadway and off-Broadway designers. Our first...
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Starting the Expedition
"I'm going to respond to all questions with: Yes. No. Rosebud."- Rae Binstock, author of ExpeditionThe Design Launch workshop scheduled for Saturday, November 29 is full and registration is now closed....
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Trial Runs Ahoy!
This past weekend, NTSA hosted trial runs of two brand-new programs: Design Launch and What Happens Next. We're always looking for more ways to get young artists involved in NTSA, and these programs...
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Top Five Reasons Why You Should Join the Expedition
January signals the start of a New Year full of new opportunities and adventures. When you're thinking about setting goals for 2015, how about considering this one: "make your off-Broadway debut"?...
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What Happens Next
We have two performances coming up of our first touring production, What Happens Next. Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 1990s? Turn to pg. 18 to spray the mutant spiders with...
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"This Life Is Possible, and It's Yours to Live."
A Message from NTSA Board Member Kate QuarfordtEach summer, New York City floods with young Broadway hopefuls from all over the country whose families pay thousands of dollars for them to participate...
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A First Glimpse at the World of Expedition
During the past two months, our student designers have been meticulously crafting the world of Rae Binstock's Expedition -- from the glass-walled Chicago apartment that overlooks the L train, to the...
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Congratulations Marla!
Congratulations to Marla Louissaint, winner of the 2015 National High School Musical Theatre Awards (also known as the Jimmy Awards)! Marla was featured as Queen Xerilla, the intergalactic...
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Countdown to the Expedition
Way back in 2004, I moved from a little town in Western New York down to the Big City for college. I was as wide-eyed and eager as they come. Every time I took the 1-9 past 42nd Street-Times Square...
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New York City, Here We Come!
Yesterday, most of Team Expedition was awake at the crack of dawn -- looking up directions to JFK Airport, making last-minute Trader Joe's trips to pick up snacks for orientation, or trying to jam that...
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Thank You, Team Expedition!
This past weekend, Expedition opened at the Fourth Street Theatre to sold-out crowds. In just two weeks, our cast and crew put together an extraordinary production that gave audiences a sneak peek at...
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What Happens Next: Dual Acceptance
What Happens Next: Dual AcceptanceGET TICKETS NOWWhat do you get when you take an idea for a story — and then let hundreds of students from across Brooklyn decide what happens next? What Happens Next:...
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Join our 2016 Team
We are thrilled to announce that NTSA will be producing the world premiere of Things People Defenestrated by Nick Mecikalski (Vanderbilt University '16) as our summer 2016 production. With his brother...
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