Today's new voices shaping tomorrow's musicals.
Prospect Theater Company is now Prospect Musicals!
As our organization celebrates 25 years of creating and developing new work by emerging artists, we’re changing our name! Prospect Musicals now centers our artistic identity as one of NYC’s foremost producers of new musical theater.
What won’t change is our commitment to bold, original stories, uplifting new voices, fearless creativity, and sustaining an inclusive and welcoming community for artists launching their careers. Join us as we embark on the next adventure!
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Prospect received renewed support from the NEA to continue our development of this new jazz musical. Help us raise our matching funds for the grant.
From silent pictures to the talkies, groundbreaking cinematic pioneer Oscar Micheaux battles the racism of Hollywood to bring Black stories to the silver screen... facing down censorship boards, financial ruin, and family betrayal. Micheaux's legacy as America's first major Black filmmaker comes to syncopated and soulful life in this new jazz musical.
Through a composer commissioning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and a grant from the NEA, Prospect has commissioned the Brooklyn based indie-folk-pop-americana group Bandits on the Run to write a new musical inspired by Alaska's Klondike Gold Rush.
- New Commission!
Join Prospect for this special dinner and concert event at the elegant art deco Edison Ballroom! The evening will be co-hosted by Broadway and Prospect stars, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Jaygee Macapugay, and will honor three extraordinary members of the Prospect and musical theater community with our annual Muse Awards: Tony Award-winning director and actor Michael Arden, arts advocate and author Kendall Crolius, and Tony Award recipient Baayork Lee. Learn more about THE EVENT.
Prospect's annual Gala provides essential funding in support of our mission to bring to life new work by emerging theater artists. Learn more about JOURNAL ADS. Donations are also gratefully accepted! Questions? Send us a message via our CONTACT FORM.
September 30, 2024
Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 at The Edison Ballroom
(240 West 47th Street, NYC)
Prospect Musicals & National Asian Artists Project
present an IGNITE Series Concert & DISCOVER Series project
Book & Music by CHEEYANG NG
Book & Lyrics by ERIC SORRELS
Directed by J. MEHR KAUR
In the twilight of the British Empire, an aspiring poet named Maya Mehta sets out to make her mark on the world. When Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March passes through her hometown, Maya is torn between duty to her family and the passionate ideals of her freedom-fighting friends in the Indian Independence Movement. Ultimately, through the power of words and actions, she defies the Empire and joins the legacy of India’s quest for sovereignty.
November 21, 2024 at 7pm
at Symphony Space
(2537 Broadway at 95th St.)
