Pamela Weiler Grayson News

This month, Theatre Now is producing staged readings of Derailed! and The Sustain, new musicals developed in their Musical Writers Lab.

The Jewish Plays Project has announced the six finalists for the 2023 Jewish Playwriting Contest, the JPP's 12th annual competition celebrating the best in contemporary Jewish playwriting, with the hopes of seeing these plays find world premier productions.

Emerging Artists Theatre has announced the return of their biannual New Work Series which runs October 4 - 24, 2021 at TADA Theater in the Flatiron District.

Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation.

Theatre Now New York has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation. The inaugural group members include: Jason Aguirre and Adam J. Rineer (Philadelphia); Mark Evan Chimsky (Portland, ME) and Zev Burrows (New York City); Ann E. Eskridge and Alton James (Detroit) & more.

Southwest Theatre Productions is proud to announce it's very first international playwriting festival and reading series, presenting the top three chosen plays from a field of about 200 in three staged readings during the month of May.  The playwrights will be in attendance as SWTP features their brand new scripts as well as some of Austin's finest actors.

RANDY WRITES A NOVEL opened Off-Broadway on Monday, April 23 at Theatre Row. The critically acclaimed show played to a sold-out house and runs until June 9.

With well over half a million unique domestic visitors and more from other markets, THE OTHER F WORD remains on the Amazon Video Direct Top Series list for the third month in a row. The show launched September 3rd 2016.

Last night, January 18th, 2016, Theatre Now New York presented its 3nd Annual festival of new musicals, Sound Bites 3.0 (sponsored by Music Theatre International and Disney Theatrical Productions) to a sold-out house at the 47th Street Theatre. An after-party, sponsored by MTI, was held after at Hurley's Saloon where awards were given. Sound Bites showcases ten 10-minute musicals or musical excerpts in one evening. Scroll down for photos from the event!

Theatre Now New York proudly announces the ten musical finalists that will be featured in the Third Annual Sound Bites 10-Minute Musical Theatre Festival. This year's benefit festival will be performing on January 18, 2016 (Martin Luther King Holiday), at 7:00 pm at the 47th Street Theatre, 304 West 47th Street, in Manhattan. Tickets go on sale to the public on December 1st at www.tnny.org or by calling 855-254-SHOW [7469]. Sound Bites Musical Theatre Festival benefits the development of new musicals.

'Lady and the Vamp' celebrates female musical theatre songwriters. This concert showcases today's female composers and lyricists, with the goal of visibility and gender equality in musical theatre. These ladies are 'breaking the glissando ceiling' in an evening of wine, women, and song.

DAMN Film Series kicks off January 13th with a screening of four short films at Theaterlab (357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor) at 7:15 pm.

The York Theatre Company, dedicated to the development of new musicals and preserving musical gems from the past, partners with producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields to present the third installment of the new game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time, hosted by Emily McNamara, music direction by Nate Buccieri, with Sheila Head as the annoyingly insistent timekeeper, on Tuesday, November 11 at The York Theatre Company's home at Saint Peters (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). The fourth and final installment in the 2014 series is set for Tuesday, December 2. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

Urban Momfare has been selected to extend its run at the FringeNYC Encore Series after a critically acclaimed run at the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival in August. Book by Pamela Weiler Grayson and Alice Jankell, music and lyrics by Pamela Weiler Grayson, directed by Alice Jankell and musical direction by Clare Cooper. Urban Momfare is being produced by Emerging Artists Theatre Company (EAT). A workshop performance of the musical was previously presented at EAT's New Work Series in March of 2013.

Why don't we ever hear songs about moms not actually liking their kids? This romp through motherhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side spans 17 years: 'Music For Gifted and Talented Babies' to bra straps and Bellinis. Sling on your stilettos!

New musical URBAN MOMFARE is having a staged reading as part of Emerging Artists Theatre's Notes From A Page Festival. URBAN MOMFARE is an irreverent (and sometimes heartbreaking) romp through motherhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where the absurdities of a rarefied lifestyle throw the universality of parenting into stark focus.

New musical URBAN MOMFARE is having a staged reading as part of Emerging Artists Theatre's Notes From A Page Festival. URBAN MOMFARE is an irreverent (and sometimes heartbreaking) romp through motherhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where the absurdities of a rarefied lifestyle throw the universality of parenting into stark focus.

TNT Music has announced the fourth edition of 'Are You Working On Something New?', set for tonight and Monday, December 2nd and 3rd at 7.00pm at Don't Tell Mama.

TNT Music has announced the fourth edition of 'Are You Working On Something New?', set for Sunday and Monday, December 2nd and 3rd at 7.00pm at Don't Tell Mama.