National Alliance for Musical Theatre

Upcoming Events

June 25, 1:00 pm ET – Webinar

Conference Continued: Changing Audiences

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

July 10, 5:00 pm ET – Webinar

Online Town Hall: Festival Announcement 2025

In this very special Town Hall, we are excited to introduce you to our 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals writing teams. The eight shows were selected this year from 537 submissions from more than 900 writers! We’ll announce the shows and you’ll get to meet the writers and hear directly from them about their work. Then we invite attendees to join us in a toast to this year’s Festival participants! (Just click the “register” button when you’re ready to join the call; no advance registration required.)

July 16, 2:00 pm ET – Webinar

Conference Continued: AI and the Arts -- Tools You Can Use!

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

August 13, 2:00 pm ET – Webinar

Conference Continued: Social Media Case Studies

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

October 21 - 24, 2025

Fall Events 2025

Fall Conference and Festival of New Musicals

New York, NY

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October 21 - 22, 2025

Save the Dates: Fall Conference 2025

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza

Maybe the most important musical theatre networking event of the year, the 2025 Fall Conference will explore the most pressing issues around new work production and development, as well as the state of the industry more broadly. Just as importantly, it provides a community for leaders of theatres from all over the country and the world to share best practices, brainstorm and support one another.

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October 23-24, 2025

Save the Dates: 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals

New World Stages, 340 W 50th Street, New York, NY

The 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be presented at New World Stages in New York City on October 23 and 24, 2025. Registration will open soon!

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March 25 - 27, 2026

Save the Dates: Spring Conference 2026

Development

Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, OR

Mark your calendar for the 2026 Spring Conference, our first-ever NAMT event in Oregon! You don’t want to miss the musical theatre fundraising event of the year!

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What Is NAMT?

NAMT is a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community. We strive every day to nurture a musical theatre canon that reflects and celebrates the rich diversity of our nation and the world. More

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Join NAMT and get valuable tools to help your organization collaborate, innovate, produce new musicals and save money! More

Members at the 2017 Spring Conference in Los Angeles

Set & Costume Registry

Search NAMT members' stocks for sets, costumes and props available for rent for your production More

Costume storage at Goodspeed Musicals

New Musicals Map

The New Musicals Map can be used to discover, follow and learn more about new musicals in development all over the world. More

NAMT News

Blog posts and highlights of press and news about our members and Festival alumni. More

James Moye and the cast of Meet John Doe (Festival 2005) at Goodspeed Musicals. Photo by Diane Sobolewski.

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Learn about the many ways to support NAMT's mission to nurture the creation, development and production of new musicals. More

Lizard Boy (Festival 2020) at Seattle Rep. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Upcoming Events

June 25, 1:00 pm ET

Conference Continued: Changing Audiences

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

July 10, 5:00 pm ET

Online Town Hall: Festival Announcement 2025

July 16, 2:00 pm ET

Conference Continued: AI and the Arts -- Tools You Can Use!

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

August 13, 2:00 pm ET

Conference Continued: Social Media Case Studies

NAMT members: Join us for Conference Continued! a monthly series of online roundtables expanding and exploring topics from NAMT’s Conferences.

October 21 - 24, 2025

Fall Events 2025

Fall Conference and Festival of New Musicals

New York, NY

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October 21 - 22, 2025

Save the Dates: Fall Conference 2025

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza

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October 23-24, 2025

Save the Dates: 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals

New World Stages, 340 W 50th Street, New York, NY

The 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be presented at New World Stages in New York City on October 23 and 24, 2025. Registration will open soon!

Learn More

March 25 - 27, 2026

Save the Dates: Spring Conference 2026

Development

Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, OR

Mark your calendar for the 2026 Spring Conference, our first-ever NAMT event in Oregon! You don’t want to miss the musical theatre fundraising event of the year!

Learn More

NAMT News

June 11, 2025

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Full Lineup Announced for CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, returns to the stage with CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!, a concert celebrating the winning songs by high school songwriters from across the country. Musical theater fans will have the chance to see these fully orchestrated arrangements performed by Broadway artists such as Florencia Cuenca, Amina Faye, Claire Kwon, Carson Stewart and more on June 16 at 7:30 p.m. ET at New World Stages in New York City. The concert will also be available through a livestream at arts.gov/songwriting and namt.org/challenge.

May 22, 2025

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The Pivot: A Listening Party with CO-FOUNDERS The Musical

Weeks away from their World Premiere at A.C.T. in San Francisco, and five years after the world shifted beneath their feet, the creative trio behind CO-FOUNDERS The Musical is still breaking rules, pushing boundaries and remixing the theatrical form. Beau Lewis, Adesha Adefela and Ryan Nicole Austin— the Bay Area-based team known as “BAR” — are living proof that misfits with a mission can change the game. Pop in your headphones! Join us for a jam session and a journey through the heart of storytelling. Find out how CO-FOUNDERS became a love letter to the Bay, a triumph of collaboration during chaos and a new kind of musical built for the world we live in now.

May 15, 2025

Meet the Student Winners of the 2024-2025 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge!

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, a joint initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT). This prestigious program provides high school students with an unparalleled opportunity to develop and showcase their musical compositions, potentially becoming a part of a full-scale musical theater production.

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