Kent Nicholson

The South Carolina New Play Festival has announced the 3rd annual festival. It will take place over four days, starting on Thursday, August 8, and will feature a wide range of musicals, plays, town halls, an outdoor variety stage, and will culminate in a Cabaret featuring Tony-nominee Phillip Boykin (Hadestown) on August 11.  

The Dramatists Guild Foundation will present selections of work by the 2022-2023 Class of Musical Theater Writing Fellows on Monday, March 25, at Playwrights Horizons. Learn more about the Fellows here!

IU Theatre & Dance presents the twelfth annual At First Sight New Works Festival featuring new plays, student-written songs, panels, and community events. Don't miss the world-premiere musical 'Vox Pop! a Post-Democratic Musical' and outstanding short plays in At First Shorts.

With a faculty led by Sam Carner, Adam Gwon, Andrea Daly, Kevin Hammonds, Marlo Hunter, Anna K. Jacobs, Andy Collopy and more, the Musical Creators' Institute pursues its mission to support up-and-coming lyricists, composers, librettists, and directors in building new work.

CCAE Theatricals and the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, will host a private industry reading of Bottle Shock! The Musical on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15, 2022.

Two-time Tony Award-winning producer Jennifer Isaacson has joined Broadway Licensing as the new Director of Amateur Play Licensing. Jennifer Isaacson will oversee all amateur licensing for the Playscripts and DPS imprints under the parent company of Broadway Licensing.

Feinstein's/54 Below has announced that Sarah Anne Fernandez will be joined by special guests Jackie Burns (Wicked, HAIR, If/Then) & Frankie Gonzalez (The Fantasticks, Superhero) in her upcoming concert Now What? on Sunday, December 12th at 9:45 PM.

Apples and Orange Arts is currently accepting submissions for the Winter 2022 and Spring 2022 cohorts of THEatre ACCELERATOR: New Reality Edition – an immersive virtual musical theatre development program geared towards developing and distributing musicals on stage and in mixed realities.

FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW will present Sarah Anne Fernandez in Now What? on December 12, 2021 at 9:45 PM. Sarah returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below after flying across the country by broom as the Elphaba u/s on the national tour of Wicked, marking her as one of the youngest girls to don the green paint and witch hat in the show’s history.

Musical Theatre Factory has announced a nationwide search for a new artistic director. The company congratulates Mei Ann Teo on their new role at Oregon Shakespeare Festival after three banner years at the Factory.

Theatre Aspen will present its second annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, as the third act of this year’s 38th summer season, launching next Wednesday, August 25 and running through Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado. 

Sean Cercone, President and CEO of Broadway Licensing, a full-service theatrical licensing partner specializing in the development, production and worldwide distribution of new and established theatrical properties, announced today that they have hired Kent Nicholson as Director of Acquisitions and Colleen McCormack as Director of Amateur Play Licensing. Tralen Doler has been named Vice President of Partnerships and Brand Engagement.

Ahead of the start of the 38th Season, Theatre Aspen announced today that after a successful first flight, the organization will present its second annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, as the third act of this year’s summer season, August 25 – 31, 2021 at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29.  Writers include Tony-nominee Beth Malone, Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls; Jonathan Larson winners Avi Amon, Sara Cooper, Ty Defoe, and Anna Jacobs and more.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29.

BLEEDING LOVE, the first musical theater podcast to be recorded and released during quarantine, is celebrating its one-year anniversary and over 20,000 downloads. BLEEDING LOVE takes place in a world that is too dangerous to go outside, where a starry-eyed teen cellist risks leaving her apartment to win the love of the rebel punk next door.

The S&S Award is turning producer to become S&S Theatre Productions, dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre­ with partnerships between the UK and the USA.

Applying the model that accelerates technology start-ups, APPLES AND ORANGES ARTS THEatre ACCELERATOR Program treats storytellers as founders, creating an opportunity to interact with experts in the storytelling, production, financing, distribution and business of show business.

Apples and Orange Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to 'taking the starving out of artist,' is currently accepting submissions for THEatre ACCELERATOR: New Reality Edition - an immersive virtual musical theatre development program geared specifically towards developing and distributing musicals in mixed realities.

Sarah Anne Fernandez and Lauren Baez, the ladies behind Dos Divas, have yet again joined forces and return to the stage - this time virtually in a concert to benefit the WHO Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.