Brian Yorkey News

Audiences at selected 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival performances this week are getting an unexpected bonus: the debut of three original musical shorts as part of the NYMF MicroMusicals Project.

The third season of the acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues October 8 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre, hosted by Tina Maddigan with compositions by Tom Kitt.

An expanded version of Edward Albee's early work The Zoo Story, as well as a musical co-written by High Fidelity's Tom Kitt, will be among the highlights of Second Stage Theater's 2007-2008 season

The second evening of the Broadway Cabaret Festival reunited the two Side Show stars to glorious effect.

Amanda Green and Tom Kitt have invited a few extra-special friends to join in the musical naughtiness when they Play with Themselves at Birdland (315 W. 44th St.) on Monday, October 17th at 7pm.

On October 17th, Amanda Green and Tom Kitt, of the upcoming musical High Fidelity, will 'Play with Themselves' at Birdland

On Sunday, September 11, Anthony Rapp and Amy Spanger led the cast in two numbers from the sold-out NYMF Show, 'Feeling Electric.'

This Sunday, September 11, the cast of the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of FEELING ELECTRIC will offer a free public performance of select musical numbers at the Virgin Megastore -- Union Square at 1:30 p.m.

WPIX Channel 11, Tribune Broadcasting's WB Television Network affiliate (a.k.a. The WB11), has begun shooting 'The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival,' a half-hour special report on the ambitious efforts of the eponymous annual festival, now in its second year.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Reno Productions proudly present FEELING ELECTRIC as one of the featured productions of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed by Peter Askin (The Good Body, Trumbo), performances begin on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Barrow Group Theatre (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Festival passes for the 2nd annual New York Musical Theatre Festival will go on sale on August 8th

The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), currently entering its sophomore year, has announced a series of invited productions and events to round out this year's slate along with the previously announced titles for the 'Next Link Project.'

Village Theatre currently presents a fun, but slightly flawed musical with a fantastic score and a good book, but with a sometimes sappy and overdramatic story line.