FCC Is Field Testing Devices to Gauge Interference With Theatrical Microphone Frequency. The Federal Communication Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology is currently field testing the performance of prototype White Space Devices, like laptops, which use the same free broadcast television spectrum as theatrical wireless microphones.

Christopher Plummer and Nikki James Are 'Caesar and Cleopatra' in Ontario. Tony Award winner and Stratford Festival veteran Christopher Plummer returns to the Stratford stage in Ontario Aug. 7 to play Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's comedy Caesar and Cleopatra, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's artistic director, Des McAnuff.

Award-Winning 'Scorched' Returns to Toronto's Tarragon Before Playing Dates Across Canada. Casting has been announced for Tarragon Theatre's remount of Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, to play the Toronto theatre's Mainspace Sept. 2-28. It will play a mini-tour of Canadian resident theatres in fall 2008 and early 2009.

Les Miz, Assassins, Bug', Panaro, Irwin, Schoeffler Among 2008 Barrymore Nominees. The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announced the nominations in 26 categories for the 2008 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre on Aug. 6.

National Opens 'Ösome trace of her' Starring Ben Whishaw. Ben Whishaw, who plays Sebastian Flyte in the new film version of "Brideshead Revisited" and who also starred in the film version of Patrick S¸skind's novel "Parfume," returns to the National Theatre to star in Ö some trace of her, opening in the Cottesloe July 30 following previews from July 23.

Denham Will Join O'Toole, Thomas, Waterston for Premiere of Rapp's 'Kindness'. Christopher Denham, of Off-Broadway's Red Light Winter and Broadway's The Lieutenant of Inishmore and "MASTER HAROLD"Öand the boys, completes the cast of the world premiere of Adam Rapp's Kindness, at Playwrights Horizons.

A Family Milestone: 'August: Osage County' Will Play 300th Show. The Broadway run of Tracy Letts' Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored August: Osage County will hit 300 performances on Aug. 13.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Teen Spirit. The median age of the Actors' Equity membership just went down by a tiny fraction.

Wild Duck,' Daisey, 'Gatz,' 'the break/s' Will Play MCA in Chicago. Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced eclectic programming for its 2008-09 performance season, which will welcome writer-monologist Mike Daisey, Elevator Repair Service's version of "The Great Gatsby" and more.

Blood Wedding' and Cajun-Flavored 'Petite Rouge' Get Free Outdoor Run in London. London's annual free open-air theatre season, being presented for the sixth year, returns to the Scoop at More London, beside City Hall on the South Bank of the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, July 31 to Sept. 7.

British Musical Comedy 'Half a Sixpence' Opens at Goodspeed. Half a Sixpence, the musical comedy about a London shop assistant tempted by money, opens in a rare revival at Goodspeed Opera House Aug. 6 in Connecticut.

Musicals 'Belle Barth, Take Me America, Here On This Hill' and 'Killala Bay' Tested in Chicago. Stages 2008, Theatre Building Chicago's annual festival of new musicals in progress, a major Midwest showcase for dawning musicals, plays Aug. 15-17.

John Mahoney Will Star in Co-Production of 'Seafarer' in Chicago and L.A.. John Mahoney, best known for playing Martin Crane on the hit sitcom "Frasier," will play a blind, foul-mouthed drunken Irishman in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer for Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Ripcords', a Musical Drama of Post-War Secrets, Will Play FringeNYC. Ripcords, a new musical drama about war profiteering in World War II, and choices to be made in the 1950s, will jump into the The New York International Fringe Festival Aug. 10-24 at the Bleecker Street Theatre.

MTC Names Five Playwrights for Sloan Commissions, Bridging Theatre and Science. Manhattan Theatre Club announced the 2008 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions to foster plays about science.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: From 'Boys' to 'Guys'. The perennial Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls - the show that never ages because it takes place in a New York City that never really existed - is coming back to Broadway again.

Heisler, Moran and Hernandez to Conjure Antigone's Woe in 'Too Much Memory' at FringeNYC. Laura Heisler, Peter Jay Fernandez and Martin Moran are among cast members of Rising Phoenix Repertory's world premiere production of Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson's Too Much Memory, a theatrical collage borrowing elements of the ancient Greek story of Antigone, as part of the 11th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Broadway-Aimed 'Brigadoon' Postponed. The new Broadway-aimed production of Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Rob Ashford and scheduled to play in Boston this fall, prior to a Broadway opening, has been postponed.

Simon Gray, British Playwright of Wit and Intelligence, Dies at 71. Simon Gray, the British playwright who for four decades chronicled with sardonic wit and a cerebral style the mores of English literary and academic circles, died Aug. 7, the Guardian reported. He was diagnosed with lung cancer last year and had been in failing health.

Working Theater Will Shine a Light on Aguirre-Sacasa's 'King of Shadows' in NYC. Working Theater, the Off-Broadway company devoted to workplace plays and plays for and about working people, will present the world premiere of prolific playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's King of Shadows starting Sept. 2.