The Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals has long been held in January, but this year, it moves to March, with a slate of three musicals in development.

And, of course, this also marks a return for the festival after the pandemic kept it from happening in 2021.

The staged readings are:

— “A House Without Windows,” 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Book by Anna Ziegler, music and lyrics by Anna Jacobs

A former child prodigy author goes missing at age 25, having left her apartment with only $30 and a light overcoat.

— “HoT,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Music by Lynne Shankel, words by Sara Cooper

It is “a darkly comic, through-composed feminist adaptation of ‘Helen of Troy’ featuring an all-women+ cast," according to Goodspeed.

— “The Gunfighter Meets His Match,” 1 p.m. Sunday

Book, music and lyrics by Abby Payne

A ranch hand turns up at a Wild West boom town, trying to understand the truth behind the stories about a gunfighter who made the town famous.

The festival also features theater-related seminars on Saturday morning and a 3:30 p.m. Saturday symposium about “Goodspeed and the Racial Equity Movement in Theatre.”

Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, Fri.-Sun., The Goodspeed and Gelston House, East Haddam; tickets to one of the musicals is $25, $15 for students; festival packages are $155 and $100, and both packages include one ticket for all three readings, three seminar sessions, meet the writers Q&A, symposium, while $155 version also includes dinner, new musical preview, cabaret; symposium is free and open to the public; (860) 873-8668, www.goodspeed.org.