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GLEE star Mark Salling, who plays Puck on the hit show, will be releasing his new solo album, 'Pipe Dreams,' on October 12 under the banner of his own label, Pipe Dreams Records. The album, reports USMagazine, will have a 'classic rock 'n' roll, alternative music and a '60s folk-beat era sound.' Salling is said to be writing performing and producing each track on the disc. The first single, 'Higher Power,' was released on August 10.

he third annual Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals will close with a special concert honoring one of LA's greatest musical theatre composers, Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown. The FNAM closing party will be held on August 21, at 4PM. The concert will feature Jason Robert Brown on the piano, accompanied by special guests Adam Pascal, Lara Pulver, Graham Phillips, Nita Whitaker, and The Theatre Geeks of America singing to several of Brown's works.

Fortyfive Downstairs will be hosting several events during the 2010-11 Season, including the play 'Do not go gentle...', the 'Unrepresented' exhibit, readings of a new play, and much more. For complete listings, go to www.fortyfivedownstairs.com.

According to Dress Circle, a special 25th anniversary two-disc edition of 'Les Misérables Live!' will be released in the UK on September 13. The recorded cast includes Madalena Alberto, Ashley Artus, Earl Carpenter, Gareth Gates, Katie Hall, Rosalind James, and other members of the 2010 UK Tour. The tour will play at the Barbican Theatre in London for 22 performances, beginning on September 14.

The Juke Joint is back this October with three big shows over two nights, including its first regional show, all climaxing with multiple WAMi Award-winning blues-rock siren Abbe May. Now in its third year, The Juke Joint has become one of SA's most loved homegrown music events because of its simple philosophy: plate up a feast of the best blues talent that this city and this country have to offer for undernourishedAdelaide music fans and let the high times roll.

Matthew Lutton directs a cast of seven diverse performers including John Gaden, Ewen Leslie and Belinda McClory in Louise Fox's new adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial. The indefinable, elusive and mysterious power of Kafka's wit, clowning, farce and obsession with the erotic is mined to the full in Sydney Theatre Company's partnership with Malthouse Melbourne and Perth's ThinIce. Performances at Sydney's Wharf 1 commence on 9 September 2010, opening 14 September.

Goodman Theatre announces the 12-member cast for Robert Fall's intimate new production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (rehearsals begin August 24, tickets go on sale August 13). This 19th century masterpiece is brought to life by a company including Francis Guinan (August: Osage County; The Grapes of Wrath) in his Goodman debut as the retired judge Peter Sorin and Mary Beth Fisher (Rock 'N' Roll; The Year of Magical Thinking) as his sister, Irina Arkadina, a beautiful, selfish actress. Also joining the cast are Janet Ulrich Brooks (Polina); Rebecca Buller (Maid); Cliff Chamberlain (Boris Trigorin, Irina's young lover), Dietrich Gray (Yakov); Stephen Louis Grush (Konstantin Trepliov, Irina's twenty-five year old playwright son); Scott Jaeck (Dr. Eugene Dorn); Kelly O'Sullivan (Masha); Steve Pickering (Ilia Shamrayev, Sorin's estate manager); Demetrios Troy (Simon Medvendenko); and Heather Wood (Nina Zarietchnaya). The Seagull runs October 16 - November 14, 2010 in the Owen Theatre; tickets are $10 - $45. Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the Contributing Sponsor of The Seagull.Artistic Director Robert Falls returns to the work of Anton Chekhov following previous productions of Three Sisters at the Goodman (1995, with a cast including Calista Flockhart, Susan Bruce and Jenny Bacon) and Orchards: Seven American Playwrights Present Stories by Chekhov (1986, adaptations by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams-The Acting Company/New York, tour with off-Broadway opening).

Pumpkin Theatre is very excited to be opening our 43rd season with the show Hansel and Gretel. We believe in providing quality children's theater that the whole family can enjoy. Hansel & Gretel runs September 25 - October 3. Performances take place at St. Timothy's School, 8400 Greenspring Avenue Saturday's and Sunday's at 1 and 3pm. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 at the door and subscriptions are available by calling the box office at 410 828 1814 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              410 828 1814      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visiting our website at www.pumpkintheatre.com.

The Seattle Theatre Group (STG) will start to sell tickets for several concerts this week, including Angus & Julia Stone, Sufjan Stevens and Mumford & Sons. More details can be found on their website at www.stgpresents.org.

New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation is pleased to announce White Ghost, an exhibition of two new sculptures by Yoshitomo Nara to be featured on the Park Avenue Malls at East 67th Street and East 70th Street from September 6 through November 5, 2010. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Art Production Fund and The Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue.

The Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts will hold two different sets of auditions for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK and MISS NELSON IS MISSING!, two upcoming shows on our 2010-2011 season.

Yellow Sound Label has announced the release of a ground-breaking new album from recording artist and musical theatre star Jeremiah James. The CD will be available August 10. Entitled TUPELO, also the birthplace of Elvis Presley, the album contains 12 songs made famous by Presley re-interpreted and re-arranged by New York's finest jazz and pop musicians. Jeremiah James has been a Presley fan since he was a child and his mother would grease his hair back for him so he could look more like The King.

Master storyteller Kenneth Little Hawk returns to Philipsburg Manor's Green Corn Festival, a celebration of the Hudson Valley's Native American heritage taking place over Labor Day weekend, Saturday through Monday, Sept. 4-6, from 10-6 each day.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider 'general standards of decency and respect' in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) presents How Obscene is This?, a program about censorship and arts funding.

Beginning September 14, The Jewish Museum presents Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals, a weekly music class for toddlers on ten Tuesdays through November 16. This hip and original class is being taught by Mike Messer, lead singer of the Dirty Sock Funtime Band. Two sessions are offered, the first from 10:00 to 10:45 am, and the second from to 11:00 to 11:45 am. Toddlers ages 6 months to 4 years and their parents will enjoy singing, dancing and jumping in this interactive program with musical instruments, props, bubbles, parachutes and other surprises. They will learn songs celebrating the lives of kids in the city, as well as more traditional and universal themes. A stimulating and fertile musical environment, positive role models, and gentle guidance and encouragement provide an enriching and vital experience. The classes help young children gain a sense of themselves and a connection to the world they live in.

This week, the Cornelia Street Cafe will be hosting several musical acts, including Four-handed Fantasies with Jed Distler, The Zozimos Quartet, and much more. For more information and a complete calendar listing, visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

Spike Hill, on 184-186 Bedford Avenue and North 7th Street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will be presenting many musical artists this August and September. Tickets and information about the events can be found on www.spikehill.com or by phone (718)218-9737.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center's 'Sounds of the City' presents Roger Davidson, Raul Jaurena & Pablo Aslan in 'Pasion por la Vida', a free concert and live webcast.

Sarasota's Golden Apple Theatre will be hosting several events throughout the month of August. For a complete calendar listing, please visit thegoldenapple.com.

The Strand is looking for talented actors for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize nominee Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living for our October slot in our main-stage season. We are looking for 3 male actors, age ranges from 20-35 and 3 female actors ranging from 15-35.