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eMusic, the internet's corner music store, and Sony Music Entertainment today announced that they have reached an agreement to sell songs from Sony Music's back catalog on the eMusic website. Beginning in the third quarter, eMusic will offer its U.S. subscribers classic recordings from all Sony Music labels, such as Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, LaFace, Legacy Recordings and RCA, including artists such as Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and OutKast. The agreement covers music that is two years old or more. Additional terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Eithne Walls, a former dancer with RIVERDANCE, was one of the passengers aboard the missing Air France flight. The plane, which disappeared Monday, contained 228 people and is thought to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 5/24/2009.

The Broadway League's weekly box office report will be significantly changed effective June 1, the first week of the 2009-2010 season (week ending 5/31/09).

Sutton Foster, Will Swenson, Marc Kudisch, Debra Monk and Christopher Sieber will take part in a reading of the new musical 'Bonnie and Clyde: A Folktale' according to Variety. The industry-only reading, produced by Jed Bernstein's Above the Title Entertainment, will take place June 16 at the Westside Theater.

The American Theatre Wing has announced its newest episode of its popular 'Working in the Theater' series, titled 'Fluidity & Change: Directors 2009.' This episode features Thomas Kail (In the Heights), Moisés Kaufman (33 Variations) Bartlett Sher (Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Leigh Silverman (Coraline), and Kate Whoriskey (Ruined). The program, moderated by Variety reporter Gordon Cox, will air on CUNY Television beginning Sunday, May 31, at 5:00 pm, with additional airings Friday, June 5 at 9:00 am, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Saturday, June 6 at 11:00 am, and Sunday, June 7 at 5:00 pm.

Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Nominee Lainie Kazan has signed on to appear on stage in ReVision Theatre's Benefit Performance of Funny Girl starring Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand. This special one night only show will take place at the Paramount Theatre on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park on Saturday, July 11th, at 8 pm.

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Francis Kuzler, Managing Director) will present Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS from June 20th thru July 19th, 2009 in Central Park. The production will also play a special performance in Fort Totten Park in Bayside Queens on July 25th, 2009. The show is an outdoor production, and is free to the public. For more information, please visit www.boomerangtheatre.org.

Tony Award Winner Alan Cumming has been cast as the villian in 'Escape To Donegal'. The film is written by Chris Minori and will be directed by Jonathan Blitstein. According to comingsoon.net, the sci-fi psychological thriller is reportedly a stylized film set in a dystopian future. Cumming will play a villian named 'Stuart', but no other information is available at this time. Filming will take place in Brooklyn this fall.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth gratefully acknowledges the following foundations and businesses for grants in support of the 2008-2009 season.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Hawaii Opera Theatre are seeking four adult singers and one child singer (with a flexible schedule that allows for daytime performances) for their production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Musical preparation and staging will happen in October-November followed by three weeks of weekday and weekend performances to both school and public audiences.

Fox television series GLEE has broken into the Billboard Hot 100 chart with its recording of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'. The track is the chart's Hot Shot Debut at No. 4. The feat is even more impressive as nine tracks charted from American Idol winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert, but those were all outsold by the GLEE recording. GLEE'S remake surpasses the original 1981 Journey recording of the song, which peaked at No. 9.

STOMP, the international sensation, is making its triumphant return to Orlando's Carr Performing Arts Centre for a one-week engagement June 9-14, 2009. The return of the percussive hit also brings some new surprises, with some sections of the show now updated and restructured and the addition of two new full-scale routines, utilizing props like tractor tire inner tubes and paint cans.

Two Time Tony Award Winner John Lithgow has been cast as a series regular on Showtime's Dexter, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Monty Python's Spamalot begins a two month run in Los Angeles on July 7th. The show plays at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre (At the Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.) There will be a preview performance on July 7 at 8 p.m. Monty Python's Spamlot opens July 8 at 8 p.m, and will perform through September 6, 2009.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre is adding Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical Into the Woods to its upcoming season. Broadway director Moisés Kaufman will direct the Tony Award-winning musical, which will be presented at the Rep for the first time.

Georges Feydeau's comic romp A Flea in Her Ear began previews May 15th, and opened May 22nd at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Tony-nominated (The Color Purple) director Gary Griffin directs a new adaptation by David Ives. The show runs through June 7.

Six bestselling authors; five established directors, twenty astonishing actors, and six brand new plays - broadcast live in high definition...introducing Sky Arts: Theatre Live! This July, Sky Arts brings live drama back to British television for the first time in twenty years as some of the most renowned names from literature, film and television come together to stage six theatrical world premieres, live weekly, from 8th July, 9pm Sky Arts 1 & Sky Arts 1 HD.

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL will 'bend and snap' June 16 - 21, 2009 at the Schuster Center (One West Second Street - corner of 2nd and Main Streets). Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take 'no' for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone more 'serious,' Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

The off-Broadway hit GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL dances onto the MainStage at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 pm.