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Bailey was injured after a fall through a trap door prior to the start of a matinee on May 10th, 2008 Shortley after Bailey requested a court order to preserve a prop in the show in preparation for a potential lawsuit.

NERO FIDDLED is pleased to announce the world premiere production of LIFE AFTER BUSH, directed by Noah Diamond and Amanda Sisk. LIFE AFTER BUSH will play a limited, three-weekend, engagement at HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Avenue, between Spring and Broome). Performances begin Friday, October 17 and continue until Sunday, November 2.

'Auditions can be hell.' says Paul Russell, an award-winning casting director, director, former actor, and author, as he launches his Fall '08 national book tour discussing his new, blunt, often hilarious, entertainment-industry insider book ACTING-Make It Your Business: How to Avoid Mistakes and Achieve Success as a Working Actor.

Irma la Douce Presented by Musicals Tonight will open Oct. 14, 2008 at McGinn/Cazale Theatre at Broadway and 76th Street.

JOAN RIVERS brings her stand up act back to New York on Election Day November 4 at The Cutting Room. She will perform there through December 17.

Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre will celebrate its season opener, Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play WIG OUT! and honor New York's ball scene with 'The Stunt and Show,' a one-night-only event featuring red-carpet arrivals and a 9pm performance of WIG OUT! on Wednesday, October 1, at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street).

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH of Broadway's Movin' Out will perform BILLY JOEL at BB King's at 8PM on Tuesday October 28th, 2008.

USC WRITERS AND PERFORMERS FIGHT ON On Sunday, September 28, alums of the University of Southern California will perform and present their material in Fight On, a Night of USC Talent to fundraise for the school's theater department.

Bob Boyett, Nice Productions, Inc., McCoy Rigby Entertainment, CBS Corporation, Tom Miller and La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts are thrilled to present the second production of La Mirada Theatre's 2008-2009 season of shows, the launch of the national tour of HAPPY DAYS -A New Musical, book by Garry Marshall, music and lyrics by Paul Williams, directed by Gordon Greenberg, Music Arrangement and Music Supervision by John McDaniel and Choreographed by Michele Lynch. HAPPY DAYS - A New Musical will begin performances on Friday, October 31 (with a press opening on Saturday, November 1) and will run through Sunday, November 16 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Boulevard in La Mirada, near the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue.

Robert Emmet Lunney, last seen on Broadway in Mauritius, will assume the role of Harrison Brent in Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York City history, on Monday, September 29, 2008. He will replace Patrick Ryan Sullivan, who will play his final performance on September 28.

Producers of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, The New Musical announce that Laura Osnes (Grease!, winner of Grease: You're the One that I Want!) will play the role of Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet in the Broadway-bound musical's one-night-only performance at Rochester's historic Eastman Theatre on Tuesday, October 21

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon will hold a free dress rehearsal at City Center on Sunday, October 5 at noon. Working with dancers from the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, which will have opened its second New York season on October 1, Mr. Wheeldon will discuss and demonstrate the process by which new works are created.

Pittsburgh CLO's 17th annual holiday production of A Musical Christmas Carol will entertain audiences of all ages December 5-21 at the Byham Theater. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 3.

Village Theatre's Record breaking Million Dollar Quartet will transfer to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago with original cast member Levi Kreis, lance Guest, and Rob Lyons

Perfect for age's four to fourteen, the Paper Mill Playhouse Children's Theatre Series has partnered with the best and brightest theatre companies to bring charming, whimsical, and educational performances filled with audience participation and adventure. All shows take place on select Saturdays and Sundays in the fall and spring and begin at 10:00am. Tickets are $15 for orchestra and box seats and $12 for mezzanine seats. A facility preservation fee applies. Single tickets range in price from $12 to $15. Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. Tickets may be purchased by calling 973-376-4343, or at the Paper Mill Box Office on Brookside Drive in Millburn, or online at www.papermill.org.

Maestro Lorin Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban-Maazel will inaugurate a new, annual music festival on their 550-acre property in Castleton, Virginia in July 2009. To help launch the fundraising campaign for the Castleton Festival, the Oscar/Tony/Grammy/Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch and Maestro Maazel will participate in a benefit concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) and Judson Memorial Church, in collaboration with Middle Collegiate Church, announced today that they will present a special one-night-only reading of Emmett, Down in My Heart, the never-before-seen play inspired by one of the most disgraceful events in America's history - the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta.

Spiegelworld, currently packing them in down at the South Street Seaport / Pier 17 under the Brooklyn Bridge, has revised its performance schedule.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) and Joe's Pub (Director, Shanta Thake; General Manager Kevin Abbott) are proud to announce additions to the extraordinary lineup of the Joe's Pub 10th Anniversary Weekend featuring 10 for the 10th, a two-day series of 10 free concerts at Joe's Pub, and an anniversary Gala paying tribute to legendary musician, champion of emerging artists, and New Yorker Judy Collins. Collins at The Public's Anspacher Theater, and ends with an after party featuring a performance by Joe's Pub favorite Karsh Kale. Produced by Joe's Pub and Katherine DePaul (President, Wildflower Records), Joe's Pub 10th Anniversary Gala will be hosted by legendary WFUV DJ Pete Fornatale and will honor Judy Collins' impressive career that has spanned nearly 50 years, her commitment to the music industry, and her history with the Public Theater and Joe's Pub. The concert features performance by Judy Collins herself, Jimmy Webb, Mary Gauthier, Shawn Colvin, Eric Andersen and more great artists to be announced!

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) has announced the complete lineup for its two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 23 - November 15, 2008) and Live Nude Plays (November 16 - 19, 2008), as well as its next workshop production, Philip Roth in Khartoum (December 4 - 21, 2008), launching the second season of Public LAB.