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After a few years of one-episode stints on shows like Passions , Criminal Minds , Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy Money , French actor Gilles Marini truly broke out in last year's Sex and the City movie as Dante, the Naked Guy.

In "Mistakes Were Made" by Craig Wright - playing at Hartford Stage - Will LeBow portrays Felix Artifex, a theater producer desperately trying to put together a play about the French Revolution.

I chatted with playwright/television writer Craig Wright in advance of his play "Mistakes Were Made" which opens at Hartford Stage tonight.

Are you ready to make your mark on network TV? The Los Angeles-based Doron Ofir Casting is helping Berlanti Television and 25/7 Productions with a search for a group of friends, between 25 to 40 and living on Oahu, to star in a semiscripted docu-series. "Oahu Nights" is the working title, and the office is accepting audition submissions on the Web ...

Playwrights Horizons is now accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the World Premiere of THIS, a new play by Obie Award winner Melissa James Gibson .

Although line prompters once played a part in theater, audiences are no longer accustomed to them and expect at a minimum that actors will know their parts.

Craig Wright , writer for TV's "Six Feet Under" and "Dirty Sexy Money," will receive the Horton Foote Award from Baylor University at the college's fourth bi-annual Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival.

When it comes to recording television programs for later viewing, Democrats like "Saving Grace" while Republicans prefer "Deadliest Catch." And it should come as no surprise that, among partisan viewers, Fox News Channel is tops with followers of the GOP while Democrats spilt their news recording among MSNBC, CBS and CNN.

In any new season, though, even an off-year like this, there are bound to be a handful of new shows worth a look.

The fall season shifted into high gear Wednesday with the first heated showdown between NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice." NBC's sci-fi drama prevailed in the coveted adults 18-49 demo, but ABC won the night overall, noticeably in total viewers and by the slimmest of margins in the demo.

Working class men and women may soon steal Hollywood's spotlight from the not-so-desperate housewives of upscale Wisteria Lane as U.S. television writers consider how to appeal to viewers in tough economic times.

With the worst economy since the Great Depression, do viewers want TV to reflect, or escape from, the Great Recession? Some shows are banking that viewers have had enough of bankers and others in moneyed Manhattan that made "Dirty Sexy Money," "Big Shots" and "Cashmere Mafia" on ABC as well as "Lipstick Jungle" on NBC such disconnects.

One might assume the provocative Bang and the Clatter Theatre would go out with a bang with its last show before the company folds.

It's great to be J.J. Abrams. His newest spec script about a married spy couple is currently undergoing a bidding war that it looks like NBC is winning .

Lifetime Movie Network is embarking on "Deadly Honeymoon," greenlighting an original movie starring "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" alumna Summer Glau.

"Dirty Sexy Money" creator Craig Wright has teamed with top reality producer Mark Burnett for a drama project that has received a script commitment from CBS.

His daughter from his first marriage and her overzealous husband have three kids of their own.

The new season of "24" has added yet another actor to its cast: Former "NewsRadio" star and "True Blood" vampire Stephen Root .

Not so long ago, TV series were all about "Big Shots," sporting pockets bulging with " Dirty Sexy Money ," and pampered women living in a " Lipstick Jungle ," who were platinum members of the "Cashmere Mafia." But those cards have been cancelled.

A It would seem that these tough, uncertain times would be the perfect environment in which to debut escapist shows, but in fact it's been just the opposite.