Monday, February 4, 2013
While there were no projections of multiplying Beyonces or major reunions of Destiny's Child members, there were much more intimate fireworks over at Joe's Pub in the second installment of O…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00PMThursday, January 31, 2013
Hey, all! I know there's been a lot of radio silence on the blog lately; unfortunately, some of my other writing projects have been taking up a lot of my time and I haven't had a chance to r…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Welcome to the new year, guys! We made it to 2013-- and while the future is still unknown, it's hard to ignore a new year ready for us to barrel on through. While I'll be one of the first to…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
I know there's been a little too much radio silence from this blog as of late. Things have just been a little busy with the launch of a new podcast (check out our latest episode where we tal…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 01:36PMMonday, December 10, 2012
The latest podcast that I've been doing with Erin Salvi on Crazytown, titled Kim & Erin Eat Cheesecake (And Talk About That Show They Just Saw), just posted its third episode about The O…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
We often walk a fine line on this blog between a musical and a play with music. Hell, throw in opera, musical spoofs, song cycles, etc. and the genre is just too hard to fit in a box. Last n…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 07:00PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
I would say I see a fair amount of theatre-- and much of it is great. Beautiful. Wonderful. Masterful.But once in a while, a theatre piece comes along that is truly special. Something that i…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMMonday, November 12, 2012
I've had the pleasure of hearing Will Reynolds' music a few times now, with songs seeming to pop up at every up-and-coming musical theatre concert in town as of late. Last night, I had the p…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:30AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
It's been an unusual week and a half, to say the least. Many parts of New York were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and even areas that weren't hit very hard by the storm itself have still be…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMFriday, October 26, 2012
I have to admit it's been a busy last couple of weeks, with much busier ones on the horizon. I've been preparing for a reading of one of my own plays set for November, in addition to launchi…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMFriday, October 19, 2012
After having watched videos obsessively from New York Theatre Barn's D-Lounge series, I finally had the opportunity to attend one in person, thanks to an invite from Becca Anderson. Becca, a…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, October 11, 2012
Last year, Chance McClain participated in our 5-question NYMF interview series for his show Kissless, and now, a year later, he contacted me with the exciting news that Kissless has been fil…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Yes, I know it's still months away, and it's an award winning West End show coming to Broadway (hardly "emerging," I know). But if there is one show I'm excited about gracing the Bway in the…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 01:33AMFriday, September 28, 2012
Though the latest season of So You Think You Can Dance is over, I still think about one of the final contemporary performances to "Leave" from Once:Being that Broadway is a frequent style of…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
I feel like I've seen a decent array of parody musicals so far this year, with Newsadoosies and Triassic Parq both representing great (albeit very different) examples of what a musical based…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, September 6, 2012
Continuing our series of guest posts is Felicia Hunter, composer, book writer, and lyricist of the new musical Fannie Lou. Telling the story of voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Fanni…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMTwo musical writers who are finding their audiences on the interwebs. By Kimberly Lew (Playwright/Blogger) I first heard about musical writers Jeff Luppino-Esposito and Matt Savarese through…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Were you aware that this blog has a theme song? Well, it does now!A while ago, I donated to The Online Musical's Kickstarter campaign for their Mini Musicals, and a perk of making my donatio…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMFriday, August 31, 2012
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Cait Doyle's Hot Mess in Manhattan, and I do have to say that if you're a fan of new musical theatre, you should totally go out and support this show…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 04:21PMThursday, August 30, 2012
A little over a month ago, I reported back from Cutting Edge Composers III, which had a couple performances as a part of NYMF. There were a ton of great songs, and most of them are up on Cut…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, August 16, 2012
David Rakoff died last week, and since the news of his passing, many who knew him have been giving lovely tributes that only further reveal what an intelligent, wonderful human being he was.…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Some inspirational tunes about memory and forgetting in the context of musical theatre... By Kimberly Lew (Playwright/Blogger) The play I'm currently working on is about memory. Or, rather, …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Lessons learned in the process of initiating the uninitiated... By Kimberly Lew (Playwright/Blogger) One of the perks of being a theatre blogger, aside from getting to talk to people who I g…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMThursday, May 24, 2012
Looking back on my family of storytellers. I don’t come from a family of writers or artists. In fact, my grandma just suggested, even after I've been gainfully employed in writing jobs sin…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Some suggestions to set your 10-15 minute play apart from the rest...
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