Playbill - Could the next great American musical surface in Kansas City? Theatre League, Inc., is investing in that idea with the first annual Kansas City Crossroads Musical Theater Festival, starting July 15.

Reuters - Los Angeles has a long tradition of splicing musical theater into a rock club environment. In the early '70s, long before it became a midnight movie sensation, the stage production of "The Rocky Horror Show" enjoyed a lengthy run at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. In the late '90s, "White Trash Wins Lotto," Andy Prieboy's Guns N' Roses spoof, graduated from a three-year residency at Largo on Fairfax to a Roxy stand.