Playbill - The Canadian Stage Company opens its 2008-09 Bluma Appel Theatre season Oct. 13-Nov. 8 with Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon, starring David Storch as David Frost and Len Cariou as Richard Nixon, in a co-production with Vancouver Playhouse, where the drama recently played.

Playbill - The Seagull took wing Oct. 2 for what seems like its annual flight over Manhattan and will hover over the Walter Kerr for a limited stay of 14 weeks, through Dec. 21.

Playbill - Slava's Snowshow, the surreal and wordless clown show set in a stark, wintry landscape, will make its Broadway debut this fall at the Helen Hayes Theatre, according to Telecharge.com.

Playbill - Critics like to tell American theatregoers that Chekhov is good for them, like medicine. But then, when reviewing an individual production of the Russian writer, they usually go on to say that this particular dose of medicine will taste terrible.

Playbill - Hairspray, the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical, is expected to close in mid-January 2009, but not before welcoming back the Mother of All Ednas - Harvey Fierstein.

Playbill - William Saroyan's ensemble play, The Time of Your Life, set in a San Francisco saloon in 1939, gets a revival Oct. 3-Nov. 1 by the Off-Off-Broadway troupe Storm Theatre.

Playbill - The Canadian premiere of the recent Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced London revival of The Sound of Music plays its first performance Oct. 3 in Toronto. As in London, the "Maria" was cast in a reality TV competition.

Playbill - The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which co-stars Jeremy Piven, Ra?l Esparza and Elisabeth Moss, begins previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Oct. 3 with an official opening scheduled for Oct. 23.

Playbill - Committed to contemporary voices, New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL, presents the world premiere of Andrew Case's thriller, The Rant, Oct. 2-26.

Playbill - "Good Morning America" will go behind the scenes at Broadway's The 39 Steps Oct. 3, in a segment running nationally between 8:30-9 AM (ET).