Origin Theatrical Competitors

Since 1884, Playbill has been the exclusive publication for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatregoers, providing complete cast and production credits for each show, as well as features and interviews highlighting the many voices that make up the theatre community. Playbill proudly serves New York's most prominent performing arts venues, including multiple venues at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera House, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, David H. Koch Theater) and Carnegie Hall; as well as theatres across the country, including the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Over the past 25 years Playbill has expanded beyond a print magazine and established itself as a trusted name in the theatre industry, offering audiences new ways to connect to Broadway and Off-Broadway around the world via Playbill.com. With over 3 million unique visitors, Playbill.com is the preeminent site for theatre news and features, delivering high-quality, original content to audiences everywhere. Over the past two decades, Playbill has also launched PlaybillStore.com, the one stop Broadway shop for theatre fans, carrying the official souvenir merchandise of Playbill and Broadway shows; PLAYBILLder, which allows school and community theatre productions around the world to build their very own Broadway quality Playbill program; Playbill Vault, a comprehensive online database of Broadway history that provides records of Broadway productions from 1930 to the present; and Playbill Travel, which takes travelers and Broadway royalty around the globe to experience the sights, sounds and tastes of the world’s finest cultures, while offering world-class concerts at night.

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard is the world's largest provider of music publications and music instruction materials. In its catalog of more than one million titles available in print and digitally, Hal Leonard represents many of the world's best-known and most respected publishers, artists, songwriters, and arrangers. Their global headquarters is in Milwaukee, WI, and their distribution and printing facilities are in Winona, MN. In addition, they have offices abroad in Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as in London and Bury St. Edmunds in England.

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theaters from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI is the exclusive licensor of the most celebrated musicals in the industry and has remained the market leader since its inception. Founded in 1952 by Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist Frank Loesser and Broadway orchestrator Don Walker, MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of musicals to create and distribute performance licenses, official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 100,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 150 countries worldwide. Our catalog contains over 300 of the world's most loved classic and contemporary musicals from GUYS AND DOLLS and THE MUSIC MAN to RENT and HAIRSPRAY. MTI is a driving force in cultivating new work, as well as sustaining and expanding the theatre audience for generations to come. MTI's dedication is unsurpassed as a pioneer of new resources to aid the rehearsal, production and marketing of a musical. MTI's proactive commitment to musical theatre results in over 25,000 productions and 100,000+ performances a year by professional, amateur, and educational organizations internationally–a number which only continues to grow.