AT MTG THE CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT IS:
+ BRAVE
We are committed partners that help artists take risks and push the boundaries of convention.
+ NURTURING
We foster ideas from their seminal stages until they thrive and grow to their full potential.
+ DISCERNING
We have a proven track record of recognizing first-class artistic talent, undiscovered artistic aptitude and production excellence.
+ INVOLVED
We invest the energy, time and skill to be involved partners and collaborators.
+ INVENTIVE
We are driven by curiosity and seek to produce unexpectedly fresh work that creates a new perspective.
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WHAT OUR ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES HAVE SAID:
MTG "really helped me find my way into opera through, I don't know another word for it, but Downtown Theater." -–librettist Mark Campbell
"Music-Theatre Group is the kind of organization that looks very boldly into the field of contemporary artists and says 'YOU should be doing this.'" -– director Diane Paulus
"The importance of ... Music-Theatre Group is that it can act as an incubator of new work, and it takes new work and devises an ecosystem around it to let it grow." -–composer Nico Muhly
In accepting the Tony award for LION KING, “I’m a non-profit baby and I want to thank…Music-Theatre Group without whom I couldn’t have created LION KING.” -–director Julie Taymor
“MTG believes in young artists before the artists believe in themselves. They continue to support those artists year after year providing a home, continuity, and a safe place from which to experiment. MTG is committed to the process of work as much as it is to the product. Because of this, MTG has nurtured and produced some of the most original, outrageous, and groundbreaking artists of our time.” -–playwright Eve Ensler
“MTG has found a way for me to go from classical cellist, to jazz composer and player, to composer of the chamber opera RUNNING MAN. This kind of vision has given me a new world in which to create my music.” –-composer Diedre Murray
“MTG provides the ideal artistic and emotional support from an artist to grow and develop. I’ve been associated with MTG since 1975. It is my home.” –-director-choreographer Martha Clarke
“As a poet, I am very stimulated by now working in the music-theatre field. I find it challenging in many ways. To have an audience responding to one’s work is deeply satisfying.” –-writer Cornelius Eady
“The grandeur of the presentation matches the grandeur of the conception…”
—About ARJUNA'S DILEMMA, John Yohalem, Opera Today
