Ludwig van Beethoven News

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) celebrates its fifth year with 24 full productions, a dance series, a developmental series, concerts and special events.

New York Musical Theater Festival (Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive Director & Producer) in association with Manhattan Movement & Arts Center (MMAC) to present NYMF's 2008 Dance Series as part of this year's festival of new musicals, which runs September 15 - October 5.

The full cast has been announced for the West Coast premiere of 33 Variations at La Jolla Playhouse.

The West Coast premiere of the new play 33 Variations, opens La Jolla Playhouse's 2008/2009 season. Written and directed by renowned theatre artist Moisés Kaufman, the play illuminates the past and present using projections of Beethoven's original sheet music and a live on-stage concert pianist. 33 Variations will open April 8 in the Mandel Weiss Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse and continue through May 4, 2008.

On the heels of the acclaimed productions of George Gershwin Alone and Monsieur Chopin, the Geffen Playhouse announces the highly anticipated culmination of Hershey Felder's Composer Trilogy, Beethoven, As I Knew Him, to kick off the theater's 2008-09 season.

La Jolla Playhouse's Artistic Director Christopher Ashley is pleased to announce his inaugural season at La Jolla Playhouse, which includes '33 Variations,' 'The Night Watcher,' 'The Third Story,' 'Tobacco Road' and 'Xanadu.'

Moises Kaufman play gets World Premiere at Arena Stage and it's a magical mystery tour.

Beethoven, a new play by Hershey Felder, will have its world premiere at Chicago's Royal George Theatre

Intriguing Russian mood piece receives world premiere at New England's Merrimack Repertory Theatre.