New York Musical Theatre Festival News

The creative team has been announced for the Musical Mondays @ Curtain Call presentation of the 2010 American Harmony Prize winning new musical 'Buddy's Tavern.'

The sixth season of the acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues February 22 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for the World Premiere of CLYBOURNE PARK, a new play by Bruce Norris (The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons/PH 2006-2007 Season).

Next month, Broadway Speaks OUT! Will be kicking off their new educational outreach program featuring a bevy of industry leaders.

Kevin Kline Award winner Ben Nordstrom and St. Louis veteran actor Steve Isom star in the St. Louis premiere of GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, the Off-Broadway hit that the New York Times called 'A Smashing Success!' The Temporary Theatre (The Temp), a new company headed by Isom, has chosen as its inaugural offering the exclamation point-littered two-man musical spoof by Scott Brown and Anthony King.

Broadway's 'little show that could,' about two New York actors creating the very show they're performing, will get its Michigan premiere this winter at The Ringwald Theatre courtesy of Who Wants Cake? The charming Jeff Bowen/Hunter Bell musical, [title of show], opens Friday, February 19th and plays for an exclusive four week engagement ending on Monday, March 15th.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Kenny Finkle's romantic comedy, Alive and Well. Directed by Jeremy Dobrish, Alive and Well will run in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre March 20 - April 25.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Sh-K-Boom Records co-present the evening, entitled Cassie Wooley's Chimera. Audiences can expect to hear an eclectic array of music by such writers and artists as Fiona Apple, Andrew Gerle, Niko Tsakalakos, Bjork, The Raconteurs, and Elvis.

Following a sold-out run at The New York Musical Theatre Festival, where it received the 'Best of Fest' Audience Prize and honors in Choreography, Direction and Acting, FAT CAMP will receive a star-studded reading Friday, February 19, 2010.

Jonathan Larson Award Winning composer Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews have been invited to workshop their new piece, WITNESS UGANDA, alongside Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell) as part of the Disney/ASCAP Workshop. Schwartz has described Witness Uganda as 'a new form of musical theatre...breathtaking.'

SpeakEasy Stage's New England premiere of the hit Broadway musical [title of show] will close on February 13, 2010.

KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARY MUSICAL will hold its world premiere run at the Kennedy Center from May 8th to May 23rd. The production will star Broadway veteran Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Trixie. The musical is based on the book 'Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.' The play has book and lyrics by Mo Willems and features music by Michael Silversher.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre announces its eighth season of great theatre, Where Art Comes to Life. The 2010/2011 season will begin with Twelve Angry Men, a suspenseful drama about the effect one voice can have on a jury.

New York University's program in vocal performance will present a workshop production of the new musical Party Come Here -featuring a book by Daniel Goldfarb (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Radio Girl) and music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum (Summer of '42, Vanities)-at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street [Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West Fourth Street)].

The award-winning VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the production 'ISABELLE AND THE PRETTY-UGLY SPELL ,' with music and lyrics by STEVEN FISHER, book by JOAN ROSS SORKIN and STEVEN FISHER and directed by VIC DiMONDA.

Imagine two hyper-talented young songwriters in New York trying to write a new musical about two hyper-talented young songwriters in New York trying to write a new musical?!

The creative team has been announced for the Musical Mondays @ Curtain Call presentation of the 2010 American Harmony Prize winning new musical 'Buddy's Tavern.'

The sixth season of the acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues February 22 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

Director Scott Robinson and Musical Director Matthew Tippel seek a diverse and multicultural cast for Buck Creek Players' upcoming Indianapolis premiere of Bruce Kimmel and David Wechter's musical spoof, THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X.

Director Scott Robinson and Musical Director Matthew Tippel seek a diverse and multicultural cast for Buck Creek Players' upcoming Indianapolis premiere of Bruce Kimmel and David Wechter's musical spoof, THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X.