Festival News

More Full Productions Announced!


Posted by NYMF on 6:16 pm Jun 25th, 2009

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Come to the NYMF Networking Extravaganza!


Posted by NYMF on 2:35 pm Jun 3rd, 2009

Want to work on a NYMF Show??

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Next to Normal wins 3 Tonys!


Posted by NYMF on 2:48 pm May 22nd, 2009

Congratulations to NYMF alumni Next to Normal ('05) for netting three Tony Awards, including Best Score (Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey), Best Orchestrations (Michael Starobin & Tom Kitt), and Best Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley).

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2009 Next Link Shows Announced!


Posted by NYMF on 6:12 pm May 13th, 2009

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) today announced the selections for the 2009 Next Link Project. Twelve of the Festival’s full production slots are reserved for participants in The Next Link Project, NYMF’s primary writer service program.  The Next Link Project empowers emerging musical theatre writing teams as both artists and entrepreneurs by providing the training and relationships needed to help them move their musicals from mere readings to fully-realized productions and to advance their careers by maximizing the exposure they receive in the Festival.

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Congratulations to Nominated NYMF Alumni!


Posted by NYMF on 1:40 pm Apr 27th, 2009

Awards season is heating up right along with the weather and, of course, that means that NYMF shows are representing in the lists of nominees! We are extremely excited to announce the nominations that NYMF alumni have earned this season...

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Show News

Variety Article - 6/28/09


Posted by on 3:53 pm Jun 30th, 2009

N.Y. musical fest sets slate

Includes new comedy from 'Wedding' duo

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Count To Ten Luminaries


Posted by on 9:39 pm Jun 25th, 2009

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Count To Ten Reviews


Posted by on 9:26 pm Jun 25th, 2009

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Awards for COUNT TO TEN


Posted by on 9:56 pm Jun 25th, 2009

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Mexico talks about NYMFand Anjou..


Posted by on 10:50 pm Jun 16th, 2009

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Festival Press

Paley Duets on TV Musicals, Reteams with N.Y. Musical Theater Festival


Posted by NYMF on 11:40 pm Aug 23rd, 2008

Variety, August 14, 2008

By Gordon Cox

The Paley Center has reteamed with the New York Musical Theatre Festival to present "Musicals on Television," presentations of rarely seen TV tuners.

 

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Trial and Error: The Hunt for Usable Musicals


Posted by NYMF on 10:49 am Oct 19th, 2007

New York Times, September 29, 2007

By Anne Midgette

Around the turn of this century, there was much talk of the new face of American musical theater: serious, boundary-defying works by the likes of Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael John LaChiusa. But it remains hard to get a musical developed and put on.

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Roll Model: Musical Theater Fest Packs a Mix of Songs & Styles


Posted by NYMF on 10:02 am Oct 19th, 2007

Newsday, September 15, 2007

By Frank Scheck

QUICK question: What do upcoming musicals inspired by such disparate sources as Jane Austen, Hanukkah, the Latin poems of Catullus, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, the murder spree of Charlie Starkweather, Jack the Ripper, and the sci-fi movie “The Last Starfighter” have in common?

 

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NY Theater Fest Thinking Big


Posted by NYMF on 10:52 am Oct 19th, 2007

Variety, August 10, 2007

By Mark Blankenship

Now that it's grown up, the New York Musical Theater Festival is trying to grow out.

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