MainStreet's Evaluation Service is OPEN!
Launched in 1983, the Evaluation Program remains the core of MainStreet's activities. Evaluation is basically an educational program providing critical professional analysis and feedback to the creators of new musicals. Works identified as "ready for development" are rated: "RECOMMENDED".
Musicals submitted to MainStreet’s Evaluation Program are reviewed by one or two* Evaluators - professional stage directors, music directors, choreographers, dramaturgs, or university theater professors - who each complete an EVALUATION REPORT to draw creators' attention to specific areas of concern in the writing. * If the first Evaluator “Recommends” your work, it will go straight into the Library. If the first Evaluator DOES NOT “Recommend” your work, it will go to another Evaluator.
PROMOTION
Over the years, MainStreet has launched several programs with the goal of promoting "Recommended Works" for development in regional communities. Since its launch in 1983, National Music Theater Network, and its offspring MainStreet Musicals, have established various programs to promote Recommended works for development and production.
Because of changes in the industry, MainStreet no longer launches nor maintains "promotional programs". MainStreet's Library will remain as a resource and incentive for other organizations to employ in their efforts to find new works to Develop and Produce.