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92 Street Y has added Reasons To Be Neil Labute to their bill. Get a rare glimpse into the life, work and creative process of prolific playwright, director and screenwriter Neil Labute in this intimate conversation at 92YTribeca. The acclaimed artist will read selections from his dramatic writing and discuss the upcoming Broadway production of his play Reasons to be Pretty Labute's works for stage and screen include In The Company of Men, Bash: Latter-Day Plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig, Some Girls and Lakeview Terrace.

Calista Flockhart is close to signing a deal to star in a play on London's West End. The former Ally McBeal, who is currently dating Harrison Ford, will take the lead in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna Christie from early next year. Anna Christie, which will be directed Ian Rickson, is about a Swedish woman sent away by her barge-captain father as a child, only to return 20 years later. Production spokesperson Sonia Friedman says, "We are in final negotiations and we're very close to doing this deal." Before finding fame in Ally McBeal, Flockhart came from a theatre background, starring in Broadway, New York plays The Three Sisters, The Glass Menagerie and Bash.