Festival News
Come to the NYMF Networking Extravaganza!
Posted by NYMF on 2:35 pm Jun 3rd, 2009
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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).
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
