Yellow Face - 2007 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 14

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is pleased to announce the first 18 new musicals selected for this year's fourth-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 17 through October 7, 2007.

David Henry Hwang was among the honorees celebrated at the Ma-Yi Theatre Company's April 23rd benefit, featuring Jenn Gambatese and Jose Llana

The OBIE Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company, one of the leading theater companies in the U.S. devoted to presenting work about the Asian-American experience, honors Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Loida Nicolas Lewis, a best-selling author and the Asian-American CEO of TLC Beatrice, as part of its Seventh Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner on Monday, April 23

The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles will host a season of recent hit musicals in 2007 and 2008 while the Mark Taper Forum undergoes renovation.

After the Mark Taper Forum's current '06-'07 season, the Los Angeles theatre will close for summer renovations and will open next year.

Stanford University and The Public Theater today announced a long-term, three-tiered partnership that will create new theatrical works, support emerging and established artists, cultivate new audiences, and foster innovation and diversity in the arts at Stanford and in the American theater industry.

Jason Robert Brown's 13, a musical by David Mamet, and Jeff Calhoun, DeafWest and GrooveLily's musical version of Sleeping Beauty are among the 2006-2007 offerings presented by the Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre