Lord Byron News

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive Director and Producer) announces a 14 new musicals to be presented as part of the 5th annual Festival from September 15 through October 5, 2008 in New York City. The New York Musical Theatre Festival is the enormously popular three-week celebration that features the works of the newest generation of musical theatre writers. The 14 musicals listed below are joining the ten new musicals previously announced, which were chosen from NYMF's open-submission writer service program, The Next Link Project.

Yale Summer Cabaret continues its 2007 season with Eye, which will be presented from July 18th through 28th.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman has signed on to write the book for the Broadway-bound Don Juan DeMarco musical starring Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas told UPI that he is indeed planning to make his return to Broadway musicals next year in a musical version of the 1995 Don Juan DeMarco

The new QED Production Company present Tom Stoppards' brillant play about sex, liturature, and thermodynamics.

Antonio Banderas may headline a new Broadway musical adaptation of the 1995 film Don Juan DeMarco next year

Catherine Bush's light romance draws from a historic meeting of literary minds

The Frankenstein Summer' concerns five lovers exploring the heights of passion and the depths of evil. It is the meeting of literary giants George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the summer of 1816 at Byron's magnificent Swiss villa.

Red Light District presents the world premiere of 'The Frankenstein Summer' by Catherine Bush directed by Marc Geller Off Broadway at The Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).