ASCAP Foundation News

Diversionary Theatre announced the company’s 2012-2013 productions and presentations at an event this past Saturday. The season will include the previously announced world-premiere of Harmony, Kansas, a new musical; an imaginative staging of Pippin; the first full-scale production of the new play, when last we flew; a comedy about family, Birds of a Feather; and, the hilarious farce, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler. (more...)

As previously reported, Julian Ovenden will star in a new musical version of the film Finding Neverland, which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet and followed the the story of J.M. Barrie's inspiration for his famous children's book, Peter Pan. (more...)

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announces 15 awards granted from their National Fund for New Musicals, a major funding program to support NAMT member not-for-profit theatres in their collaborations with writers to create, develop and produce new musicals. Now in its fourth year, the Fund will provide grants totaling $48,000 to 14 organizations across the country. (more...)

Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor and Tony Award-winning creator and composer-lyricist of Broadway's In the Heights, will join Arturo O'Farrill's GRAMMY® Award-winning ensemble, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, for its 10th Anniversary season celebration, "Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond." (more...)

Called “Intense”, “Shocking” and “Profoundly Moving” during its London premiere, the new rock musical TROUBLE THE MUSICAL will be presented at the Signature Theatre’s Griffin Theatre as part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival. (more...)

Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with MY DEAD IRISH MOTHER by Pat Byrnes and Rich Prezioso on Monday, April 23, at 7:30 PM at the Light Opera Works Second Stage at 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. Tickets are $15, available at Light Opera Works box office: (847) 920-5360 or at the door. (more...)

Performing works by Inhyun Kim, Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang, Marco Stroppa, Kurtag, Messaien, Ligeti, Debussy, and Schumann, pianist Jenny Q. Chai makes her Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30 ($15 for students) and will be available beginning February 19th at www.carnegiehall.org, at the Carnegie Hall Box office at 57th street and 7th avenue in New York City (which is also the location of the venue), or by calling 212 247 7800. (more...)

Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with VERVE by Fran Zell and Karena Mendoza on Monday, March 19, at 7:30 PM at the Light Opera Works Second Stage at 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. Tickets are $15, available at Light Opera Works box office: (847) 920-5360 or at the door. (more...)

On Monday, March 12, 2012, New York Theatre Barn will present NYTB in the D-Lounge, a monthly concert for emerging musical theatre writers (now in its 5th year), at the Daryl Roth Theatre. The March 2012 installment of NYTB in the D-Lounge features composer/lyricists Joey Contreras and Stephanie Johnstone. (more...)

Pittsburgh CLO and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, in partnership with The ASCAP Foundation and Academy and Grammy Award -winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, have announced that SCARY MUSICAL has been selected for further development as part of the Pittsburgh CLO/Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama New Works Program. The program encourages the exploration and refinement of new works of the American musical theater. (more...)

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) has announced that it will present the musical Pippin as part of its 2012 – 13 Season. The production will be directed by Diane Paulus with choreography by Gypsy Snider of the Montreal-based circus company Les 7 doigts de la main, also known as 7 Fingers. Performances will begin in December 2012 at the Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge. (more...)

Performing works by Inhyun Kim, Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang, Marco Stroppa, Kurtag, Messaien, Ligeti, Debussy, and Schumann, pianist Jenny Q. Chai makes her Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30 ($15 for students) and will be available beginning February 19th at www.carnegiehall.org, at the Carnegie Hall Box office at 57th street and 7th avenue in New York City (which is also the location of the venue), or by calling 212 247 7800. (more...)

The Hartt School has announced the following upcoming events. (more...)

On Monday, March 12, 2012, New York Theatre Barn will present NYTB in the D-Lounge, a monthly concert for emerging musical theatre writers (now in its 5th year), at the Daryl Roth Theatre. The March 2012 installment of NYTB in the D-Lounge features composer/lyricists Joey Contreras and Stephanie Johnstone. (more...)

Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with VERVE by Fran Zell and Karena Mendoza on Monday, March 19, at 7:30 PM at the Light Opera Works Second Stage at 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. Tickets are $15, available at Light Opera Works box office: (847) 920-5360 or at the door. (more...)

Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with MORALITY PLAY by Janet Burroway and Matthew M. Kiedrowski on Sunday February 19, at 7:00 PM at the Athenaeum Theatre at 2936 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, and on Monday, February 20, at 7:30 P.M. at the Light Opera Works Second Stage at 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. (more...)

Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with MORALITY PLAY by Janet Burroway and Matthew M. Kiedrowski on Sunday February 19, at 7:00 PM at the Athenaeum Theatre at 2936 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, and on Monday, February 20, at 7:30 P.M. at the Light Opera Works Second Stage at 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. (more...)

The winner of the 2012 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater was announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which administers the Rodgers Awards. (more...)

ASCAP announced today that it has aligned with DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) as part of their successful, annual musical theatre workshop program: The ASCAP Foundation/DreamWorks Musical Theatre Workshop. (more...)