PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has begun websales for four of its spring releases: original cast recordings of A Catered Affair and ADDING MACHINE, and solo discs by Kerry Butler and Capathia Jenkins. None of these albums are available yet in stores (A Catered Affair and ADDING MACHINE hit stores on May 27 and June 3, respectively), but PS Classics has begun accepting orders and shipping from its website, www.psclassics.com. (read story...)

The Little Mermaid's Adrian Bailey Injured in Fall at Theatre

Adrian Bailey, an ensemble member in the cast of The Little Mermaid on Broadway was injured after a fall through a trap door prior to the start of the Saturday matinee (read story...)

The producers of Spring Awakening, Broadway's groundbreaking musical hit, are pleased to announce that Kyle Riabko will step into the role of Melchior on May 23rd. On May 20th, formance, Alexandra Socha will take over the role of Wendla. They are taking over the roles created by Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele who will be playing their final performance on May 18th. (read story...)

Magic Theatre, the premiere home for new plays, announces its 2008-09 Season of New Plays. New Artistic Director Loretta Greco’s inaugural season features a wide breadth of styles and stories from a cutting-edge family drama to a kid’s perspective on life and death, from a fast-paced and darkly humorous rumination on modern existence to a dynamically theatrical and surprisingly funny odyssey through one woman’s battle with breast cancer. (read story...)

La MaMa La Galleria is pleased to announce the opening of a floral photography installation by the Filipino-American writer/photographer Randy Gener and the Romanian-born theatre designer/visual artist Nic Ularu. In the Garden of One World brings together theatre scenography, digital photography and installation art to create a conceptual space inspired by Ellen Stewart’s famous dictum that theatre should “speak beyond words.” (read story...)

NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions Inc. is proud to announce that Sopranos’ stars Dan Grimaldi and Jason Cerbone, and actor Joe Lisi (Take Me Out, Sopranos) will lead a stellar cast for an invitation only Industry Reading of the new play entitled Homeland, written by Charles Messina (Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God). (read story...)

Composer Tan Dun’s epic opera The First Emperor, which had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera last season, returns to the stage on Saturday, May 10, for the first of three performances. (read story...)

Image Entertainment presents the DVD and Blu-ray DVD release of the hit Broadway musical, Company, featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim on May 20th! Director John Doyle brings his unique approach similar to his version of Sweeney Todd in 2005: the actors perform all the instruments on stage. (read story...)

Playwright, performer and activist Daniel Beaty has been creating a community-wide buzz with his acclaimed one-man show Emergency that has enabled the Geffen Playhouse to produce a special week-long extension aimed primarily at Title I public schools (three additional performances will also be added for the general public). The production will now close at 2pm on Sunday, June 1. (read story...)

Gingold Theatrical Group presents 'The Devil's Disciple' as part of Project Shaw on May 19th. (read story...)

Arena Stage presents Charles Ludlam's comic masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep. This clever, quick-change marathon ransacks literary, cinematic and pop culture as it satirizes everything from Hitchcock's Rebecca and classic horror film The Mummy's Curse to Wuthering Heights and Shakespeare. Arena Stage is excited to welcome back Brad Oscar (Broadway's Spamalot and The Producers, Arena's Cabaret and Damn Yankees) and J. Fred Shiffman (The Arthur Miller Festival, She Loves Me, Cabaret) as they portray all of the characters--men, women and monsters--in this gender-bending "tour de force." The Mystery of Irma Vep runs June 6 - July 13 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. The press opening performance is Thursday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m. (read story...)

There's no escape from "KLUB", the triple threat (Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice", LA Weekly "Theater Pick", and Back Stage West "Critic's Pick") hit comedy currently at The Actors' Gang through Saturday. After a brief hiatus, "KLUB" will re-open on June 19, running through July 19 at The Gang's Culver City home in the Ivy Substation. KLUB is the existential comedy in which 10 highly dysfunctional performers must audition with their life stories to escape from a play in which they are trapped. Call it "A Chorus Line" in reverse. "Every year we donate our theater space to Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts so the students can put on a week-long series of public performances," explains Actors' Gang managing director Greg Reiner. "KLUB will take a brief break so we can honor our commitment to the community." Variety called KLUB, "caustically brilliant [and] darkly hilarious, an acid valentine to the theater world that sizzles with anarchic glee." The LA Weekly said, "brilliant...furnishes luminous commentary on the obsessive narcissism that impels, and ultimately imprisons, so many performers - onstage and elsewhere." Agreed the Los Angeles Times, "The Actors' Gang revives Mitch Watson's demented satire with vampish glee and tasteless overstatement... a near-ideal pairing of style and substance." Performances of KLUB take place Thursdays and Fridays 8 pm and Saturdays at 8 pm & 10:30pm, June 19 through July 19. Tickets on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm are $25.00; tickets on Saturdays at 10:30 pm are $15.00; all Thursday evening performances are Pay-What-You-Can. The Actors' Gang is located in the Ivy Substation at 9070 Venice Blvd. (near the intersection of Culver and Venice Blvds.) in Culver City. Two hours free parking is available throughout downtown Culver City; the Ince Parking Lot (corner of Culver and Ince) is directly across the street from the theater. In addition, several restaurants (Italian, French, Thai, Japanese, and more) are only a few blocks' walk from The Actors' Gang and offer a variety of dining options before and after the theater. The Ivy Substation is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible. For reservations and information, call The Actors' Gang Box Office at 310-838-GANG (310-838-4264) or go to www.theactorsgang.com. (read story...)

Fourth Arts Block (FAB), a coalition of cultural and community organizations, is kicking off more than $16 million in capital improvements to the East 4th Street Cultural District at a Groundbreaking Celebration on Wednesday, May 21st at 11:30am. (read story...)

Sunday in the Park with George’s stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will appear on WABC’s “Eyewitness News this Morning” on Sunday, May 11th at 9:00AM on channel 7. Tune in to hear Daniel and Jenna discuss their Olivier Award winning roles in this beautiful musical revival. (read story...)

Previews for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of the new musical SAVED, which were scheduled to begin tonight, Friday, May 9, have been postponed due to a longer than expected tech process. Tonight’s 8PM performance has been cancelled and the musical will now begin previews tomorrow evening, Saturday, May 10 at 8PM. (Please note: a matinee performance had not been scheduled for Saturday afternoon.) (read story...)

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words," the acclaimed, long-running L.A-based comedy sensation has taken New York by storm and will play its final Spring performance on Monday12th (7:30PM) at The Triad Theater (158 West 72nd Street). Produced by Angelo Fraboni, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Peter Martin, the show continues to draw top talent to its rotating cast and bold -faced names to its sold-out audiences. (read story...)

Inevitable Theatre Company proudly follows up its inaugural season with a dynamic selection of music and madness in 2008-09, including the area premieres of two cutting-edge plays and the world premiere concert reading of a new alt-rock musical. (read story...)

Friday, May 9th 'The After Party' welcomes the cast of 'Honor' a new musical by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel. (read story...)

The Summer Play Festival, New York’s $10-ticket, smash-hit theater festival, featuring the hottest playwrights, directors and producers emerging in New York and around the world, today announced that its fifth and best season ever will be held at the celebrated Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York’s Greenwich Village. (read story...)

Babel Theatre Project to present World Premiere of Stomp and Shout (an’ Work it All out) by James Carmichael, directed by Geordie Broadwater May 29, opening Sunday, June 1, 2008 upstars at the 45th Street Theatre. (read story...)

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE and PAUL ADAMS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR present ONE MAN TALKING for a one-week only engagement at Roy Arias Theatre Center, Off-Off Broadway Theatre (300 West 43rd St, 5th floor, NYC). The festival is curated by EAT members, William Reinking and Tom Greenman. Performances begin Tuesday, May 20, 2008, and run through Sunday, May 25, 2008. (read story...)

The newest edition of the American Theatre Wing’s “Working in the Theatre” will feature “Demystifying the Classics” on CUNY TV on Sunday, May 11 at 5 p.m. The program will repeat on Friday, May 16 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, May 17 at 11 a.m. (read story...)

The Guthrie Theater is pleased to present Flying Foot Forum’s French Twist, a foot-stomping, heart-stopping, slap-happy faux-French pastiche of dance, song and comedy that's both inspiring and entertaining. (read story...)

Francesca Annis, Lisa Dillon, Chris O’Dowd, Dominic Rowan and Catherine Tate are to star in the West End premiere of David Eldridge’s Under The Blue Sky which will open at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 25 July, with previews from 15 July, and is currently booking until 20 September 2008. (read story...)

“THE HARDER THEY COME”, the reggae musical based on the 1972 Perry Henzell film that launched Jimmy Cliff onto the world stage, will open at the Playhouse Theatre on Monday 9 June with performances commencing on 23 May. “THE HARDER THEY COME” has enjoyed sell-out seasons at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Barbican Centre, which both received rave reviews. (read story...)