Wow.  It's a pity this casting wasn't announced sooner.  I can imagine many fans who would have traveled across country for this being unable to do so due to the short notice.

When LATW first started performing and recording audio dramas in the mid-1980s, the intent, as explained by some of the actors at the initial performance, was to give them the opportunity to experiment with new material in an environment that did not require the time commitment of a fully staged play or other projects such as television and film. The rehearsals occur quite close to the actual performances, and casts are typically confirmed on very short notice because of potential scheduling conflicts with projects that require more time. The short notice is usually not an issue as far as ticket sales are concerned. Recently, Jon Hamm appeared in The Three Sisters. The announcement was made 3 weeks before the performances, and they sold out. Of course, this was also aided by the publicity surrounding the status of the next season of Mad Men. In the case of Dracula, Selby's involvement has been publicized since September of last year, which is remarkably long notice for an LATW performance.

Do they always release these shows on CD?  This is something would buy.

The typical procedure is to have a series of live performances on stage in Los Angeles. The program is then eventually broadcast on NPR stations [snarky political comment deleted] and also made available online for about a week on the LATW web site to stream on demand. A couple of weeks ago, they aired a performance that was originally recorded in November, so it usually takes a few months for the recording to be available. I believe the CD is usually made available around the time of the broadcast.

TheaterMania ran a piece within the past day or two indicating that he's playing Dracula. This is incorrect, and I suspect it will unfortunately be picked up and repeated elsewhere.

The promotional artwork for this show is out:

Thanks for the link, Midnite. You can click on the photo for a larger version. Selby is sitting beside McAteer. 

Not that this really means anything in this particular case, but Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers, which is the seminal text in fan studies, makes use of several screen captures from Star Trek (original series) episodes that are part of a fanvid. The book is/was published by Routledge, a major British academic publishing house with offices in London and New York, and there is no acknowledgment accompanying the book's copyright and cataloging information to indicate use of material belonging to Rodenberry, Paramount, etc. The book has been in print for almost 20 years now. On the other hand, as has been noted multiple times here and elsewhere, those in charge of the ST franchise have been much more tolerant in matters such as this.

Hmmm - it seems like Amazon isn't actually paying attention if the point was to get them to stop selling the book

I doubt they're going to pull it unless the university press recalls the book. If Amazon took sides every time there was a copyright dispute with an established publisher, they'd be pulling titles left and right.

Getting off topic, but an example. In recent years, the University of Tennessee Press was forced to pull a title by Fred Ruhlman that dealt with Andersonville because he plagiarized quite a bit of it. Copies had already been sold when the problem was discovered, and they continue to be sold by individual sellers on Amazon even though Amazon ceased selling new copies directly when the book was recalled.

Amazon might pull the DS title at the request of WSU press, but copies are likely to continue to circulate via their independent sellers.

The author has expressed concerns on his Facebook page about how long the book will be available. He's apparently been contacted by Jim Pierson over some sort of DCP copyright claim. Not sure what the basis of the complaint would be since a book about the series by a film studies professor published by an academic press would seem to be about as scholarly as you can get for fair use purposes.

Regarding the price for the book, $14-15 for a paperback from a university press is an absolute steal. They're usually at least twice that in my discipline.