Your Green Is Welcome: 'Shrek' Box Office at Broadway Theatre Opens. You can now walk up - or stomp up, if you're an ogre - to the Broadway Theatre box office for tickets to Shrek the Musical. The box office at the theatre, at Broadway at 53rd Street, opened Sept. 29.

Julia Stiles Invited to Star in Broadway's 'Oleanna'. Julia Stiles - of the "Bourne" movies and Off-Broadway's Fran's Bed - is heading to Broadway in David Mamet's Oleanna, the actress told columnist Cindy Adams.

VA's Signature Revives Sondheim & Laurents' 'Anyone Can Whistle' for Concert. Signature Theatre, respected for its interpretations of Stephen Sondheim musicals, takes on the Sondheim-Arthur Laurents cult favorite from 1964, Anyone Can Whistle, in a special 8 PM Oct. 6 concert at the Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, VA.

Wild Dogs' Gets World Premiere in Toronto. Nightwood Theatre in association with The Canadian Stage Company presents the world premiere of Wild Dogs, from the novel by Helen Humphreys, Oct. 4-Nov. 8 in Toronto.

Coward's Complete 'Tonight at 8:30' Cycle Will Be Staged by Shaw Festival in 2009. The Shaw Festival in Ontario will produce all ten plays in NoÎl Coward's Tonight at 8:30 series, in repertory, as part of the 2009 season, which runs April to November.

More Magic to Do: 'Tempest', with Patinkin as Prospero, Gets Extra Week. Classic Stage Company's new production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, starring Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin, has been extended one week to Oct. 19 due to strong ticket sales and solid reviews.

PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: 'The Seagull' - Rising Like a Phoenix. 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.

Director Jerry Zaks Plugs Into 'Nerds' Musical. The Broadway-bound musical Nerds, about computer giants Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and their colleagues, is getting a Tony Award-winning download in 2008-09: Jerry Zaks is now the director.

Apple Tree Founder Boevers Will Get Special Jeff Award in Chicago. Eileen Boevers, founder and recently retired executive artistic director of Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, IL, will receive a Special Jeff Award at this year's Chicago Jeff Awards ceremony Oct. 20.

Dressed to Thrill, Actor-Writer Busch's 'Third Story' Opens at La Jolla Playhouse. Charles Busch plays characters named Baba Yaga and Queenie Bartlett in his new comic drama inspired by the movies, The Third Story, opening Sept. 21 at La Jolla Playhouse in California.

Harris, Keith and More Open Door to Ayckbourn's 'Bedroom Farce' in NYC. Off-Broadway's The Actors Company Theatre launches its 2008-09 season Oct. 5 with Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, featuring Cynthia Harris, Larry Keith, Eve Bianco, Margaret Nichols, Scott Schafer, Ashley West, Mark Alhadeff and Sean Dougherty.

13', Jason Robert Brown's Pop Musical About Coming of Age, Opens on Broadway. 13, the new middle school-set musical with songs by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and performances by actors and musicians who are not yet old enough to drive, opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Oct. 5.

Philly's Arden Gives Voice to 'Gee's Bend'. Casting has been announced for the Arden Theatre Company's Philadelphia premiere of Gee's Bend, the popular regional play about the lives and work of Southern African-American quilters, to run at Arden's Arcadia stage Oct. 9-Dec. 7.

Dolly Parton's '9 to 5: The Musical' Opens in L.A.. What a way to make a living! The Broadway-bound 9 to 5: The Musical, with a score by the Grammy Award-winning star of the concert stage and screen, Dolly Parton, opens Sept. 20 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles after previews from Sept. 9.

Turn of the Century', a New Musical from Tune, Brickman, Elice, Opens. Turn of the Century, the new musical about time-traveling performers who go back to the past to introduce the greatest hits of the American popular songbook, opens at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago Sept. 29. Rachel York and Jeff Daniels star.

Liz Callaway Will Get New Solo Album on PS Classics Label. Liz Callaway, the clarion-voiced Tony Award nominee who starred in Broadway's Baby and Miss Saigon, will be in a Manhattan studio Sept. 29 beginning work on her first solo album in seven years, for the PS Classics label.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Daniel Slays the Stallion. "Harry Potter" himself, Daniel Radcliffe made his long-awaited Broadway debut Sept. 25 at the Broadhurst.

Bloody Fun: VA's Signature Presents 'Lieutenant'. Signature Theatre's Washington, DC, premiere of the viciously bloody comic satire The Lieutenant of Inishmore begins Sept. 23, playing to Nov. 16 in Signature's ARK Theatre in Arlington, VA.

Storch/Cariou Reprise Vancouver Roles of 'Frost/Nixon' for Toronto Run. 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.

Philly's Barrymore Awards Presented; 'Les Miz, Assassins, Bug' Among Nominees. The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's 2008 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre will be handed out Oct. 6.