Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival's 11th Annual Season Awards Ceremony Held 9/9

The Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Eleventh Annual Season AWARDS CEREMONY on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8pm at New World Stages, 340 W. 50th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC. Tickets are $20 ($15 if booked before 8/30) and are available now at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

MITF's AWARDS CEREMONY willfeature entertainment by 2010 Season shows, including scenes from Can I Really Date A Guy Who Wears A Yarmulke?, Screenplay, and Tallish Tales; and musical numbers from Civil War Voices, Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Musical, and Ten Reasons I Won't Go Home With You, among others. There will be a cash bar. Audiences voted online for the Best of Fest and one of those lucky voters will win tickets to The 39 Steps in a drawing at the ceremony.

"The Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival [is] still on the front line of producing edgy theater..."
- Times Herald-Record

"Most Likely To have a hit!"
- Newsday

Duncan Pflaster, The Starship Astrov: A Checkhovian Space Comedy, and Scott Brooks, Screenplay,"show us that the future stars of the industry often can be found in the festival circuit."
- Broadway World

"A fluid compilation of historical text, drawn from diaries, letters, and other Civil War-era writings, and period songs, formulaically arranged by Mark Hayes, Civil War Voices is a soul-stirring crowd pleaser."
- Back Stage

"Because deep down inside it's very innocent, naïve, and yet it somehow reached that little part of me that still believes that the person I would like to be with, will be there someday, ready to be with me. There's nothing like a little hope in what can sometimes seem a very hopeless city...And like true love, I hope a producer finds [Ten Reasons I Won't Go Home With You], dates it, falls in love, marries it, and gives it a happy life."
- nytheatre.com

The MITF's 2010 Season ran 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 InterNational 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.