Stephen Merritt, Bret Michaels, and David Bryan may be dominating the current talk of rock stars in New York theater with their work on Coraline, Rock of Ages, and Toxic Avenger: the Musical, respectively, but there's another rock star currently working with New York theater as well. Last weekend, Ian Astbury, former singer for The Cult, performed with his new band The Soft Revolt to help promote John Patrick Shanley's 1984 Savage In Limbo at the Bowery Electric.

Shanley, fresh off a successful film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, started out as one of the better purveyors of New York City's seedy 1980s underbelly, a world in which Astbury and The Cult were quite at home. Save in Limbo was set in a downtown Manhattan bar, which makes the play perfect for the Bowery Electric's artists' bar aesthetic.

In addition to his performance last weekend, Astbury is producing the play, which ends its limited run on June 28. While Astbury won't be making any more solo performances at the show, The Cult will be launching a massive tour in August playing their most famous album, 1985's Love.

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