Kris Stewart News

On Sunday, May 21, 2006, the New York Musical Theatre Festival will host UNLEASHING THE NEXT LINK, a celebration to kick-off the new theater season and to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's NYMF Next Link Project, as well as a peak at many of the invited works.

Anthony Rapp, Phylicia Rashad and Marsha Norman will be among the seven-member Grand Jury for the 2006 Next Link Project Submissions

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presented a one-night-only benefit concert, The Best of Fest Bash, on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages and BroadwayWorld was there!

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's starry Best of Fest Bash will be presented tonight, February 27th

February 27 will see the New York Musical Theatre Festival celebrate a birthday of sorts, with its 'Best of Fest Bash' presenting the highlights of their first two big years.

BroadwayWorld.com, the Premiere Theatre Site on the Net, Boasts Over 175 Stars and Pros - Choosing their Most Memorable or Favorite Romantic Love Songs from a Broadway Show...in An Expanded and Updated Version of Last Year's Top-Rated Feature.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), whose annual three-week celebration has premiered more than 70 new musicals in the past two years, will present a one-night-only benefit concert, 'The Best of Fest Bash,' on Monday, February 27 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Showtime is 7 p.m.

A 25% increase in audience attendance occurred between the New York Musical Theatre Festivals held in 2004 and 2005

Plane Crazy opened at the NYMF Festival on Saturday Night, September 17th and BroadwayWorld was there!

NYMF fans, artists, industry and celebrities partied this Monday, September 12th at the opening Festival Gala.

Wrong Number, an improv-based musical by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, will have its premiere at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival from September 19th through 28th

On Thursday, September 8, 2005 at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, 4 NYMF shows - The Unknown, 6 Women With Brain Death (or Expiring Minds Want To Know), The View From Here and Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell showed off their stuff, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Six NYMF shows have announced that they will extend their runs due to being sold out

A press conference for the 2005 NYMF took place on August 30th with a special preview of The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Big Time, The Mistress Cycle, Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, No Boundaries, Plane Crazy, and Project Footlight.