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'Two Steps Forward--One Look Back'--performed on Wednesday May 14 at 9:45pm at the Metropolitan Room--is a revue of folk, country, bluesy/jazzy pop, nouveau swing and singer-songwriter music of the 1950s-1980s. It is the cabaret debut of operatic singer Kathryn Allyn.

School of Visual Arts (SVA) Department of Film, Video and Animation, in conjunction with Dangerous Ground Productions to present Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Beware Of A Holy Whore', an all- new staged theatrical adaptation of the 1971 film.

New York City Center Announces 16th Encores! Season opening with 'On the Town.'

AVENUE Q is the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony® Award-winning book and score. The three-time Tony® Award winner, including Best Musical, will make its Miami debut at The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County May 13 - 18, 2008. The Miami engagement of AVENUE Q is a co-presentation of The Arsht Center and Stanford Broadway Across America - Miami presented by Moet Chandon.

REVIEW: Run of the Mill's annual Variations project takes on the theme of Power. At the Baltimore Theatre Project through May 18.

This week on Broadway Beat award season has begun and this epsiode brings you inside the 2008 Drama Desk Nominees Party and to Opening Night of Thurgood - only right here on BroadwayWorld!

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.

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

Tommy has won an unprecedented 5 MAC Awards for Outstanding Impersonation and a Back Stage Bistro Award for his work. Tommy also received a 6th MAC Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Duo for 'Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli Live!,' co-starring Christine Pedi (Forbidden Broadway, The Sopranos) as Judy's daughter Liza Minnelli.

Phil Tag - has had numerous television appearances including Showtime, A&E, NBC's Friday Night Videos, and is a semi-regular on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Tag is also known nationally as a winner of Star Search. For the record, Phil was the final comedy champion before the show's demise. Phil has written for Saturday Night Live and the The 25th Annual People's Choice Awards.

A Coral Springs resident, Greggs holds a bachelor degree, magna cum laude, in music education from the University of Miami, 1999, and a masters of arts in teaching, from Florida Atlantic University, 1997. She has also studied abroad in vocal performance and German studies at Salzburg College, Austria, in 1990. Greggs is the founder, director and administrator of the innovative MusicMakers! Summer Camp for ages 6 - 14, and for which she is also the curriculum and program designer and head instructor.

David Lindsay-Abaire's play will be the last of the season for the Warren, RI theater

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.)

'Colorful World', the new play by James Comtois, presented by Nosedive Productions, is a sometimes confused - sometimes intriguing look at the neuroses of former costumed superheroes in an alternate world.

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.

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.

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

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.