National Alliance for Musical Theatre

Upcoming Events

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

October 21 - 22, 2025

Fall Conference 2025

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

Don’t miss the most important musical theatre networking event of the year! At the 2025 Fall Conference, we’ll 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.

October 23-24, 2025

37th Annual Festival of New Musicals

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

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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Festival of New Musicals

37th Annual Festival of New Musicals

October 23-24 See eight exciting new musicals in 45-minute staged reading presentations in front of a industry-only audience. This must-attend event brings together theatre producers, presenters and developers from around the world to celebrate the future of these promising new musicals! Register now! More

Fall Conference

2025 Fall Conference

October 21-22 NAMT members, don't miss 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. Register now! More

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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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Members at the 2017 Spring Conference in Los Angeles

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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, including our newly launched Resiliency Fund. More

Performers at the 2024 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Winners Weekend Challenge Accepted! concert. Photo credit: Rebecca J. Michelson

Upcoming Events

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

October 21 - 22, 2025

Fall Conference 2025

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

October 23-24, 2025

37th Annual Festival of New Musicals

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

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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NAMT News

July 9, 2025

Meet the Selected Writers & Musicals for the 37th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS

The FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, which was created to celebrate the new musicals that were being produced and presented around the country, has introduced musical theatre producers to 300 musicals and 575 writers from around the world. More than 85% have gone on to subsequent readings, workshops, productions and tours; been licensed; and/or recorded on cast albums as a direct result of the Festival. Past Festival shows include Come From Away, Lempicka, The Drowsy Chaperone, Lizard Boy, Teeth, Gun & Powder, King of Pangea, Benny & Joon, Darling Grenadine, Ordinary Days, It Shoulda Been You and Thoroughly Modern Millie, among many others.

July 9, 2025

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NAMT Announces Selectees & Finalists for the 37th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS

Now in its 37th year, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS is an industry-only professional development event offering the chance to discover eight new musicals presented in 45-minute concert presentations over two days to hundreds of producers, presenters, artistic & executive directors, investors, donors, developers and creative administrators in Regional Theatre, Broadway, Music, Film & TV from all around the globe. As a non-profit organization, NAMT funds the Festival entirely through donations, sponsorships and contributions which underwrite all production costs.

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.

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