"Last year's hit production of Orson's Shadow, a big winner at our recent Garland Awards, aroused interest in future productions of this Austin Pendleton-penned play about the infamous 1960 collaboration between Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles on a production of Rhinoceros. Actor Bob Balaban, Oscar-nominated as a producer of the film Gosford Park, has bought the world rights to the play and is in talks to take it to London, where it's likely to resonate clangingly, as that is where it's set. Andrew Ableson, who brought critic Kenneth Tynan to definitive near-life in the Black Dahlia Theatre's production, may have an edge on the competition for the role overseas, since he has his British Equity card. Meanwhile, Ableson is in Torn at Theatre/Theater, an improvised drama that sounds fascinatingly risky and is scheduled to play Apr. 6 through May 18."