An all-star ensemble is headed by Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and Orlando Bloom DURHAM, N.C., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The film production of Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner Horton Foote's final screenplay, "Main Street", began in Durham, North Carolina on April 6th starring Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and Orlando Bloom, with Andrew McCarthy, Tom Wopat, Margo Martindale and Victoria Clark heading the supporting cast.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote died Wednesday in Hartford, Conn.

By Michael Kuchwara NEW YORK - Where have all the new plays gone? On Broadway this fall, it will be lonely pair - "To Be or Not to Be" and "Dividing the Estate" - that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry revivals such as "Equus" and "All My Sons.""Broadway has been fairly unfriendly to the new play for a while," said Daniel Sullivan, acting artistic director last season for Manhattan Theatre Club, which will produce one of those two new works.

By Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Feb. 29--CITY Altar Boyz: For people looking for a light, frothy night out, these sweet-voiced boyz are irreverent enough to please shoppers on the Magnificent Mile, and affectionate enough to ensure no one cancels church.