• You're in luck -- maybe. As I'm putting this column to bed, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre is trying to extend August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" another week, through June 8. This is the Pittsburgh Cycle's '60s play with the fine cast led by Anthony Chisholm, Jonathan Berry and Sala Udin. The additional performances would be 8 p.m. June 6, 2 and 8 p.m. June 7 and 2 and 7 p.m. June 8 ($22.50-$27.50; 412-288-0358). It's a tiny theater, which increases the impact, but that means you need to make your plans -- as soon as they make theirs.

Click here for a look at my review, which also has links back to my interview with guest star Anthony Chisholm and lots of other August Wilson coverage.

• We've finally had weather that actually feels like summer, and the seasonal theaters are blooming right on cue. Little Lake is already a week into its second show, Mitch Albom's "Duck Hunter Shoots Angel." Sunday, Apple Hill ends its first show, "No Sex Please, We're British." And South Park is in mid-run of its opener, "Golf: The Musical."

• The professional St. Vincent Summer Theatre opens its 40th season tonight with "Don't Say Goodbye, I'm not Leaving," featuring Joe Warik, Phil Winters, Cary Spear and Pat Reilly.

• Last weekend, Thom Thomas of the Pittsburgh Theater Hall of Fame (I know we don't have such a thing, but if we did, Thom would be in it), visited from California to discuss with Ron Lindblom and the designers at Playhouse Rep the premiere of his revised "A Moon to Dance By," the story of Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin von Richtofen Weekley Lawrence Ravagli -- better known as Frieda, widow of D.H. Lawrence.

With Thom was director Ed Sherin, a distinguished veteran of Broadway ("The Great White Hope," "6 Rms Riv Vu," "Rex," etc.) and TV ("Law & Order," etc.). And get this promised cast: Jane Alexander (Sherin's wife, so she's committed), Robert Cuccioli (CLO favorite) and Maxwell Caulfield (Broadway, TV, film). It's scheduled for Feb. 5-22, 2009.

• That's assuming the Playhouse is still standing in 2009. Who knows how long it will take Point Park University to raise the $95 million needed to build its new Playhouse Downtown, as I wrote about last week. But in anticipation of the Playhouse's eventual demise, I'm soliciting Playhouse memories. Jude Pohl, Barbara Russell and Maria Sciullo were the first to respond; I'll soon start publishing the memories I receive in this space. Please send me your own, by e-mail or snail.

• I haven't had a chance to talk yet with Alan Stanford, busy directing "Salome" for PICT, but I remember him well from his Trust-sponsored 2006 visit with "Waiting for Godot," playing a towering Pozzo opposite Johnny Murphy and Barry McGovern. I expect a treat from his "In the Presence of Oscar Wilde," 2 p.m. Sunday only, a fund-raiser for PICT.

• With Nicole Uderhay and Jim Mezon here to do "Salome," it might seem that no one's minding the store at Canada's Shaw and Stratford Fesivals, But of course they are well stocked. The PG's annual Critic's Choice Shaw/Stratford strip is set for July 9-13.

At the Shaw, we'll see Terrence Rattigan's "After the Dance," the Bernstein-Comden-Green "Wonderful Town" and Shaw's "Getting Married." At Stratford, the menu includes "The Music Man" and Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well" and "The Taming of the Shrew," with "Hamlet" and "There Reigns Love" (the famed Simon Callow's solo show about the sonnets) as optional extras.

The trip menu also includes actual food, hotels, a motor coach, sessions to discuss the plays and a lot more. We hope to announce the trip with more detail Sunday, but you can also request a flier from Jackie or Candi at Gulliver's Travels, 412-441-3131.

• First the CLO cited its alumni in some Broadway shows (May 1 column), then Pittsburgh Musical Theatre sent its own list (May 15). Now CLO is back with a list of its Tony-nominated alumni: Kathleen Marshall (director/choreographer of musical revival nominee "Grease"); Tom Wopat and Faith Prince (lead actor and actress, "A Catered Affair"); Rob Ashford (choreography, "Cry-Baby"); Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography, "In The Heights"); Ken Billington (lighting, "Sunday in the Park"); and Natasha Katz (lighting, "The Little Mermaid").

• Playwright, director and producer Sean Michael O'Donnell ran the Olde Bank Theater in a former Natrona Heights bank building, 1999-2003, then moved to the New York area. Now he's back, and he has a new 52-seat theater space on the upper floor at 722 Allegheny River Blvd. in Verona. Called the New Olde Bank Theatre, it will open June 20-29 with an offering of his one-act comedies with the overall title, "Return to the Moral Abyss." Opening night is a special performance at $20, but normally it's $10 (412-251-7904; www.newobt.com). Beyond this, O'Donnell has ambitious plans. E-mail info@newobt.com for more.

• The African American Council of the Arts announces its 2008 Rob Penny Lifetime Achievement Award, "to honor an individual who demonstrates Rob's quest for knowledge, his passion for using the arts for educational purposes, [and] his love and respect for people of the African Diaspora." It will be given to Valerie Adeniji Lawrence at the AACTA awards evening on June 27; contact Vickie Bey, msbeybey@hotmail.com.

• Pittsburgh mime, comic, actor and man about theater Dan Kamin is in Shanghai to perform with the Shanghai Symphony and also at a benefit for the earthquake victims.

• Paid admissions at city's pro theaters for the week ending May 25: