Some public radio stations will broadcast the L.A. Theatre Works production of Horton Foote's The Young Man from Atlanta starring David Selby and Shirley Knight on Saturday, July 31, and Sunday, August 1. Online simulcasts will be available, and an archived broadcast will be available online for a week following the original airdate on one station's web site.

Additional details, including links to listen to broadcasts, are available on the Airdates page of DavidSelby.com.

Several public radio stations will air the L.A. Theatre Works production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial starring David Selby as Lt. Commander Queeg over the July 2-4 weekend. Some of these broadcasts will be available online.

Dan Lauria and Josh Stamberg also star.

For additional information, see the Airdates page of DavidSelby.com.

This has been mentioned elsewhere, but the full casting information just became available this week. David Selby will appear in the LA Theatre Works production of Hugh Whitemore's Pack of Lies on June 16-20. (There are no Saturday performances.)

Performances are at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Other cast members include Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis, and Julian Sands. (Worthless trivia: Ayres and Jarvis are married. Selby is the only non-British actor listed as starring in this performance.)

A synopsis of the play and box office information is available on the LA Theatre Works web site or DavidSelby.com.

The Associated Press and Variety recently reported that the Motion Picture Association of America had to arbitrate a dispute between Dreamworks SKG and Revolution Studios over the titles of their upcoming Christmas films.

Surviving Christimas starring Ben Affleck and Christina Applegate, which includes an appearance by David Selby, was originally filmed in early 2003. The release date was delayed due to an agreement between film studios that would prevent two of Affleck's films from competing with each other in theaters. Therefore, we got Paycheck this past holiday instead of Surviving Christmas, which will be released this coming November.

Revolution Studios plans to release a film based on the John Grisham novel Skipping Christmas this year.

Because of the similar titles and because Surviving Christmas is already in the can, the MPAA determined that Skipping Christmas has to be retitled Christmas with the Kranks, after the name of the family that is the film's focus.

There . . . more info than anyone could ever possibly want or need.

Just a few quick additions:

• The News page now contains links to the two recent WVU press releases regarding David's honorary doctorate and commencement address.
• The News page also contains information about Dark Shadows DVD Collection 13.
• The TV Schedule and Radio Schedule pages are no longer being updated since the News page of DavidSelby.com now includes that information. Less work for me. 

New information is accessible from the What's New section of the main page:
http://www.ldrservicesonline.com/davidselbysite

For those of you who have SoapNet, the current episodes of Ryan's Hope feature Dorrie Kavanaugh in the cast as Martha McKee, who is dallying, shall we say, with Jack Fenelli.

Kavanaugh appeared on DS as Phyliss Wicke.

This Ryan's Hope web site features screen grabs from an episode that aired recently on SoapNet:

http://members.tripod.com/RyansBarOnline/kavanaugh1.html

The grabs aren't the greatest, but I didn't recognize her until the closing credits, so I don't have any of my own to offer. 

Sadly, Dorrie Kavanaugh passed away in the early 1980s.

The recent SG e-mail update reported that Chris Pennock is appearing as Claudius in the Tamarind Theatre's production of Hamlet in L.A. I found this article about the play and its connection to an HBO series from the L.A. Times rather interesting.

ARTS NOTES;
'Hamlet' is making quite a scene
3-14-04

In L.A.'s sub-100-seat theater scene, most producers can't afford to spend much on advertising.

But the hoopla for the "Hamlet" opening March 22 at the 85-seat Tamarind Theatre in Hollywood is something else entirely.

Already, the production is being advertised on 12 billboards, as far away from the theater as West L.A., and on two city buses. Television commercials are in the talking stage.

Francesco Vitale, who runs the Tamarind and stars as Hamlet, says the marketing campaign set for the next few months has a $300,000 budget, raised from three investors whom he won't identify. None of the money is his, he insists: "I'm a struggling actor."

The production also might get a PR boost because it and the Tamarind are being used in the shooting of a new HBO comedy series that George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh are producing. But Vitale says revenue from the HBO deal is not paying for the "Hamlet" marketing campaign, which was already in place before the deal was made. In fact, he believes the marketing might have helped attract HBO.

HBO officials declined to discuss the deal except to confirm that the series has filmed both at the Tamarind and during rehearsals for "Hamlet."

-- D.S.