Playbill - Gregg Edelman and Heidi Blickenstaff are among the stars of Prairie, a new musical based on the "Little House on the Prairie" books, which will have a reading at New York Stage and Film July 7-9.

Playbill - Benjamin Hendrickson, the actor who played detective Hal Munson on TV's "As the World Turns" for many years, and worked in theatre in New York City, died in his Long Island home in an apparent suicide.

Playbill - The Bay Street Theatre's production of Darwin in Malibu has its Darwin. Hal Linden will play the author of "The Origin of Species" in the Crispin Whittell comedy, set to run Aug. 15-Sept. 3 at the Long Island theatre.

Reuters - Bringing "A Chorus of Disapproval" to Los Angeles must have seemed like an attractive proposition. Its behind-the-scenes, play-within-a-play romp was a big success for its author, British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and its grumblings about Thatcherite policies play as well in the current U.S. corporate environment as they did in 1984 in the U.K.

Reuters - After writing "The Motorcycle Diaries" screenplay, Jose Rivera felt he had more to say about Ernesto "Che" Guevara, so he wrote a play he says shows the Latin American revolutionary would have had plenty to say about the war in Iraq.