“When I was working on something in Copenhagen, I saw that there was a pirated version being done at a town in Sweden nearby,” Schwartz recalls on the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater ...

Back in the late 1990s, my kids nearly wore out our VHS copy of the Dreamworks animated musical film “The Prince of Egypt.” The bibical tale of the Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt had a terrific score, ...

For a long time the 1998 animated film “The Prince of Egypt” didn’t have an official stage adaptation. But that didn’t stop fans from putting on live versions of the musical anyway—as Stephen Schwartz ...