Elise Dewsberry News

Discover the webseries by New Musicals Inc., 'Can AI Write a Musical?' where musical theatre artists collaborate with AI to create a new musical narrative. Experience the fusion of art and technology in North Hollywood. Set in North Hollywood, 'Can AI Write a Musical?' invites audiences to delve into the world of musical theatre production.

This summer's Hollywood Fringe Festival will see the world premiere fundraiser event of a one-hour one-woman musical comedy featuring the Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc, Elise Dewsberry; with book and lyrics by New Musicals Inc. Executive Director Scott Guy and music by Jacques Offenbach. Additional music by Max Bruch, Michele Esposito, and Ken Neufeld.

'For a Moment in Time' will have a debut reading for producers on March 17 at the Garry Marshall Theater in Burbank, California.

Geoff Davis never thought he would be the subject of a musical. He's a revered handyman in North Hollywood, California, and adored by everyone on the block.

Winners of the prestigious international Search for New Musicals for 2021 were announced today at New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles.

On Veterans’ Day - November 11 - at 7pm, New Musicals Inc is hosting a special online concert to help celebrate the day and pay respect to veterans around the world. The free concert will feature excerpts from the musical webseries, “So Proudly We Hailed” which honors veterans by dramatizing and musicalizing their story in their own words.

In the family-friendly musical Gideon and the Blundersnorp, Gideon is a stableboy who dreams of being a knight, despite belonging to the wrong social class. Alanna is a young viscountess trapped in the system of royal succession. Together they team up to escape bandits, navigate a treacherous forest, and confront the vicious Blundersnorp.

Eight brand-new fifteen-minute musicals will have their world premiere LIVE ON STAGE on July 13 and 14 at the Broadwater Mainstage in Hollywood. 

After a successful online debut in October, Michael Gordon Shapiro and producing partner New Musicals Inc. are thrilled to announce the streaming of the theatrical adventure Gideon and the Blundersnorp starting on Thanksgiving Day and continuing through the holiday season.

When the COVID-19 pandemic ended plans for a live theatrical premiere of Michael Gordon Shapiro's new musical in Hollywood this past June, the production team brainstormed about how they could still share their work.

Broadway and Los Angeles artists join forces in an online workshop of the new musical adventure, the family-friendly GIDEON AND THE BLUNDERSNORP in which Gideon is a stableboy who dreams of being a knight, despite belonging to the wrong social class. Alanna is a young viscountess trapped in the system of royal succession. Together they team up to escape bandits, navigate a treacherous forest, and confront the vicious Blundersnorp, whose dream is simply to eat everyone. Ita??s a musical about aspiration, adventure, and escaping societya??s expectations. (And fighting giant monsters.)

New Musicals Inc. is now accepting applicants to its 2020-21 Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop. Musical theatre writers, lyricists, and composers are invited to audition for the famed workshop, hosted Academy for New Musical Theatre at NMI.

New Musicals Inc. is now accepting applicants to its 2020-21 Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop. Musical theatre writers, lyricists, and composers are invited to audition for the famed workshop, hosted Academy for New Musical Theatre at NMI.

Apples and Oranges Arts in collaboration with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and Broadway Tech Accelerator present a live, virtual Shark-Tank-style pitch session in which four writing teams from NAMT's Festival of New Musicals present their shows to theatre executives and investors from around the country.

New Musicals Inc. has announced that four writing teams have been selected to participate in the 2020 New Voices Project, a musical theatre development program hosted by New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles (with support from Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment), now in its eighth year.

Eight brand-new fifteen-minute musicals will have their world premiere on July 18 and 19 at the Broadwater Second Stage in Hollywood. These musicals are a decades-long tradition at New Musicals Inc., and one of the hottest tickets in town.

"Mother's Mothers' Day" is a one-woman musical about Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mothers' Day, who spent the rest of her life trying to destroy the holiday because of its over-commercialization. She spent her last days in an asylum.

New Musicals Inc. is proud to announce that three writing teams have been selected to participate in the 2019 New Voices Project, a musical theatre development program hosted by New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles (with support from Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment), now in its seventh year.

Winners of the prestigious international Search for New Musicals were announced today at New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles.