The Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival (MITF) announces partnerships for the 2010 Festival, including discounts to followers of the MITF on Facebook and Twitter. The offers are made available through MITF's friends at the Commercial Theatre Institute, offering discounts on CTI's producing seminars, and the Off-Broadway production of The 39 Steps, offering discounted tickets to the show. Additional deals include meals at restaurants such as The Irish Times, Skylight Diner and The Tick Tock Diner. Discounts are available by joining at http://twitter.com/NYMITF or http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/New-York-NY/The-Midtown-International-Theatre-Festival/49630082266?ref=ts.
The Commercial Theatre Institute, now in its 29th year, is a project of
Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and The Broadway League, Inc. Dedicated to training the next generation of commercial theatre producers, CTI provides resources and guidance to individuals interested in the various paths one can take towards creating commercial productions for the stage.
The 39 Steps mixes a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, and adds a dash of Monty Python, creating a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance. In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale.
The Irish Times, located at 254 W. 31st Street, is an authentic Irish bar in the heart of Manhattan. Inside is a large bar, a full kitchen, and two levels of dining, serving lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. Skylight Diner, serving residents and businesses in Hell's Kitchen since 1996, is located at 402 W. 34th Street at Ninth Avenue. Tick Tock Diner, owned by the adjacent New Yorker Hotel, is a 50's style diner on Eighth Avenue at 34th Street.
The MITF's 2010 Season runs from July 12 - August 1, 2010 at the Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd Street, NYC; the
June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Main Stage Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor; and the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor.
The Midtown Inter
National Theatre Festival, now in its eleventh year, celebrates the diversity of theatre. The MITF welcomes theatrical storytelling across a broad spectrum of genres, forms, identities, cultures, and appetites. The MITF seeks to nurture these new ideas, perspectives, and stories on its stages, with an eye set on guiding these productions toward future success and longevity. The festival, traditionally held in summer, represents a fantastic, often paradoxical, adventurous and intriguing cross-section of the forefront of the
Theatre World. The MITF proudly hosts production companies from across the country and around the globe, uniting talent in one of the biggest theatre capitals in the world.
Mr. Chatterton created the MITF, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, in 2000 as a way to present the finest off-off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. In 2008, the Festival added two 99-seat theatres and inaugurated the Commercial Division for upwardly mobile shows with commercial ambitions. The MITF's artistic emphasis is on the script itself and therefore the Festival requests minimal production values.
For more information, visit www.midtownfestival.org.
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