Playbill - Big-deal musicals honing their acts out of town reached out for a little help this week.

Playbill - Additional casting has been announced for the world premiere of Beau Willimon's political play, Farragut North, for Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company.

Playbill - The First Wives Club - A New Musical will premiere at The Old Globe in San Diego in summer 2009, prior to Broadway.

Playbill - Casting has been announced for Signature Theatre's Washington, DC, premiere of the viciously bloody comic satire The Lieutenant of Inishmore, to play Sept. 23-Nov. 16 in Signature's ARK Theatre in Arlington, VA.

Playbill - Caldwell Theatre Company is breathing new life into a comedy about death, Lying in State, by David C. Hyer, which begins Sept. 5 in Boca Raton, FL.

Playbill - French playwright Eugene Labiche's durable 1851 farce An Italian Straw Hat gets a new ribbon or two Sept. 5-Oct. 5 in a fresh musical version premiering at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, CA.

Playbill - Two Spoons, Peter Mercurio's play about gay dads on the verge of marriage - until temptation arises - gets its New York City premiere starting Sept. 5 at the Bank Street Theatre in Greenwich Village.

Playbill - A second delay of the first preview of 9 to 5: The Musical has been announced by Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, which will now launch the Dolly Parton-scored show at 8 PM Sept. 9, six days later than originally announced.

Playbill - Maryland's Round House Theatre's 2008-09 season will launch Sept. 17 with its first commissioned play, the world-premiere adaptation of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Washington, DC-based playwright Karen Zacar?as.

Playbill - Meet Allan Larson, the father - and one of the keepers of the flame - of late Rent writer Jonathan Larson.