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'SOUTHERN GOTHIC NOVEL: The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident' which opened Off-Broadway on Wednesday, January 21st at the Stage Left Studio Theatre (438 West 37th Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) has been extended through June 24th due to what excited press notes state because of 'MANY rave reviews, a SOLD-OUT Box Office and a STEADY STREAM of people flying in from ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI, the tour-de-force comedy has EXTENDED again'.

TV Reviews: HBO's live telecast of Will Ferrell's one-man (and friends) show was, for the most part, a front-row seat for a pretty slim bit of entertainment -- one that relies more on a kind of gleeful immaturity than genuine satire.

A golf course in Texas had a heavy duty hazard: A bulldozer reported stolen a decade ago has been found buried under a fairway. The Dallas Morning News reports Thursday that investigators located the bulldozer at Canyon West Golf Course in Weatherford....

It's two-headed cow vs. the lizard man as dueling freak shows are set to battle it out on Brooklyn's famed Coney Island Boardwalk. A West Coast sideshow act wants to set up shop just two blocks away from Coney Island's reigning oddball act famous for its army...

This summer, NBC is bringing back I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, and will air the series almost every weekday for an entire month. The network will also air a fourth season of America's Got Talent, with its new host, and a new family road trip series.I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2--which I'm calling it because NBC stubbornly refused to rename it, pretending as if the ABC version never happened--will be broadcast for three weeks from Monday to Thursdays from 8 to 9 p.m. ET starting June 1, and then for its last week from Monday to Wednesday, ending June 24. That's The network was negotiating to bring back the series back in February, and a report mentioned 12 episodes, but NBC will air 15 episodes, just like ABC did.NBC describes its version in a press release as 'the ultimate Swiss Family Robinson as ten celebrities are dropped into the heart of the jungle to face fun and comedic challenges designed to test their survival skills,' and 'America is the puppetmaster, c

This summer, NBC is bringing back I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, and will air the series almost every weekday for an entire month. The network will also air a fourth season of America's Got Talent, with its new host, and a new family road trip series.I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2--which I'm calling it because NBC stubbornly refused to rename it, pretending as if the ABC version never happened--will be broadcast for three weeks from Monday to Thursdays from 8 to 9 p.m. ET starting June 1, and then for its last week from Monday to Wednesday, ending June 24. That's The network was negotiating to bring back the series back in February, and a report mentioned 12 episodes, but NBC will air 15 episodes, just like ABC did.NBC describes its version in a press release as 'the ultimate Swiss Family Robinson as ten celebrities are dropped into the heart of the jungle to face fun and comedic challenges designed to test their survival skills,' and 'America is the puppetmaster, c

In-keeping with their series of 'Extraordinary EBay' packages, Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) is proud to announce an online auction item is bound to start a rumble. opening night tickets to the revival of West Side Story.

Critically-acclaimed US TV series The Wire, starring Dominic West, is to be shown on BBC Two, it is announced.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, announces the next sessions of its ongoing Making Connections series, a professional development and networking program nurturing the next generation of performing and creative artists. Making Connections is geared toward early-career artists, including singers, composers, librettists, designers, directors and others who work in or would like to work in the field of opera.

John Sutherland never made good on his promise to eat Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence if it failed to win the Booker prize, so here's hoping America's National Endowment for the Arts literature director David Kipen will prove more honourable.Kipen, programme director of American community reading scheme The Big Read, has vowed to eat a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird if any one of the 128 residents of Kelleys Island in Ohio fails to read the book. Weighing in at 309 pages, it is at least likely that Harper Lee's classic tale of racial prejudice will prove more digestible than Rushdie's 464-page novel.So far, according to local paper the Sandusky Register, 70 residents have pledged to read the book, but Kipen, an author and book critic, needs the remaining 58 to sign up, or he'll be facing a nasty case of indigestion. If everyone living on the island reads To Kill a Mockingbird, and signs an affidavit promising they've done so, Kipen has said he'll buy them all a pizza.Kipen