National Pastime "in dry dock"

Bryan Harnetiaux, playwright in residence at Spokane Civic Theatre, is setting aside the month of September for revising his Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey play, fresh off a successful and extended run at the Fremont Centre Theatre in Pasadena, Calif. -- where it is under consideration for both an Ovation award (L.A.-area theater, both large and small) and an NAACP Image Award.

After turning in yet another revised script ("You'd think, after nine years, I'd have it figured out!") to Stamford Theatre Works in Stamford, Conn., Harnetiaux will be off to Manhattan for auditions in December before the show's February run in Connecticut.