Playbill - Steven Sutcliffe, a 1998 Drama Desk Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner for Ragtime, will return to the Shaw Festival, where he acted in his formative years, to play George in Sunday in the Park With George.

Playbill - A month of Wednesdays has been added to the run of Southern Gothic Novel: The Aberdeen Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident, the Off-Broadway solo-actor comedy conceived and written by Frank Blocker.

Playbill - A Manhattan production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, broken into separately-sold acts, will be presented at the American Theatre of Actors' Sargent Theatre Jan. 21-Feb. 1.

Playbill - Playwright Gloria Bond Clunie explores the question of graduating from your roots and the obligation to give back in Living Green, getting its world premiere starting Jan. 23 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago.

Playbill - Nicole Parker, who recently wrapped her seventh season on Fox's "MADtv," will join the Broadway company of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked Jan. 16.

Playbill - Four actors portray 30 characters in a series of vignettes that explore male-female relationships in the world premiere of actor-writer Tracy Dawson's Them & Us, opening Jan. 8 after previews from Jan. 6, in a production by Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.

Playbill - Northlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Kenneth Lin's cross-cultural relationship play, Po Boy Tango, begins Jan. 7 in suburban Chicago.

Playbill - The Broadway-bound revival of the ground-breaking musical West Side Story, which made its world premiere at the National Theatre in 1957, officially opens at that Washington, DC, landmark Jan. 7. Previews, under the direction of the show's librettist, Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents, began Dec. 15, 2008.

Reuters - Mofina said his latest book, "Six Seconds," released in the United States and Canada this week, was written the same way as his other eight books -- plotted on the bus on the way to work then typed out in his suburban basement in Ottawa.

Playbill - Tony Award winner Mary-Louise Parker exercises a trigger finger starting Jan. 6, with the first Broadway preview of Christopher Shinn's new adaptation of Hedda Gabler, the Henrik Ibsen classic about an unhappily married woman in 1880s Norway.