Playbill - Producers of Broadway's quick-change, fast-paced comedy The 39 Steps, at the Cort Theatre, announced a series of September events meant to enhance enjoyment of the show, inspired by director Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film.

Playbill - The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will present its second Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a city-wide, 16-day performing and visual arts festival Oct. 10-25.

Playbill - Before it surfaces Off-Broadway this fall, the hip-hop musical, Clay, will make a big noise at Kansas City Repertory Theatre's Copaken Stage Sept. 6-28.

Playbill - Tad Mosel, who adapted James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family" into the Pultizer Prize-winning stage play All the Way Home, died Aug. 24 in Concord, NH. He was 86. For the last 18 years of his life, he resided at the Havenwood-Heritage Heights Retirement community in Concord.

Playbill - Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman's Scratch, charting her relationship with her sick mother, will get its world premiere at Toronto's Factory Theatre Mainspace Oct. 4-Nov. 2. The playwright, who began the work when she was 16, will also play the teenage daughter character, Anna.

Playbill - "With a Song in My Heart: John Pizzarelli Sings the Music of Richard Rodgers," a new recording by the jazz guitarist and vocalist who interprets the American Songbook, is in stores now from Telarc.

Playbill - Ace, the Broadway-aimed musical about a boy's flight through his own family history, begins performances Aug. 27 in Arlington, VA, with a flock of divas helping to keep the production aloft.

Playbill - Maggie Burke, Natalie Gold, Michael Hayden, Gio Perez and Michael Warner will be featured in Steven Levenson's new play, The Language of Trees, the second production of the Roundabout Underground program, which introduces and cultivates artists in a 62-seat space.

Playbill - Complete casting has been announced for Goodman Theatre's world premiere musical Turn of the Century, directed by Tommy Tune and starring the previously announced Rachel York and Jeff Daniels.

Playbill - Broadway's Burke Moses, Gaston of Beauty and the Beast, will play Capt. Von Trapp opposite reality TV audition winner Elicia MacKenzie, of CBC TV's "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?," in the new Toronto production of The Sound of Music.