Contemporary Musicals Set Outside of New York
Here are 10 contemporary, modern-day musicals set in US locations outside of New York.
Read MoreHere are 10 contemporary, modern-day musicals set in US locations outside of New York.
Read MorePOV: You just finished a draft of the show you’re writing. Now it’s time to plan a musical table read, and we hear your inner monologue.
Read MoreDirector Ilana Ransom Toeplitz generously shares her thoughts and experience on the process of working with writers on new musicals.
Read MoreCarol de Giere and Stephen Schwartz discuss the importance (and challenge) of constructing successful opening numbers — and offer a few tips!
Read MoreIn the Madison New Works Lab, Mark Evan Chimsky and Zev Burrows learned how to work with a team and how that team responds to a musical work-in-progress.
Read MoreThe 7 Plot Points are often used in creating narrative structure for novels, films and musicals. Use them to evaluate, refine and polish your script.
Read MoreIt is the pursuit of a protagonist’s “grand goal” or superobjective that grabs us and keeps our attention. Stay on track and never lose focus of that goal!
Read MoreThe 2016 New York Musical Festival, in conjunction with ASCAP, featured a panel discussion, For the Love of Originality: How to Invent New Stories in Musical Theater. (And, how to interest producers and audiences.)
Read MoreAt the core, there has to be something big enough about the idea that there’s a reason to sing.
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