A star-studded reading of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which will benefit PS 3, will be presented Jan. 9 at 7 PM at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

According to Telecharge.com, the sold-out reading boasts the talents of Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Julia Stiles, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman.

The Odd Couple opened on Broadway in 1965 starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau. Matthau later repeated his work for the 1968 film. The play received a Broadway revival in 2005 starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.

Neil Simon – the only playwright to have four of his works running on Broadway simultaneously – has been honored with three Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Drama Desk Award, an American Comedy Award, a Golden Globe Award and the Kennedy Center Honors. Some of his works for the stage include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Chapter Two, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. He also contributed librettos to the musicals Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; They’re Playing Our Song; and The Goodbye Girl.

Cherry Lane Theatre is located at 38 Commerce Street, off 7th Avenue, one block south of Bleecker. For more information visit Telecharge.com.

Julia Stiles will join Dane Cook and Josh Hamilton in a production of Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig” on Broadway this spring.

The three will team up beginning April 12 at the Belasco Theatre on 44th Street for the darkly comic tale of a bachelor who falls for a plus-size girl. The show officially opens April 26.

Stiles began her career on stage at New York’s downtown La MaMa Theatre, and has since appeared in “Twelfth Night” in Central Park, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Oleanna” with Aaron Eckhart and Bill Pullman, and opposite Mia Farrow in “Fran’s Bed.”

“Fat Pig” premiered off-Broadway in 2004, and LaBute, whose films include “Nurse Betty” and “Your Friends and Neighbors,” will be making his Broadway debut as its director.

I added 27 HQ & MQ images of Julia’s gorgeous 2007 photoshoot by Sarah Dunn. This shoot is by far my favorite Julia shoot. Check them out. I am constantly working on the gallery, adding old stuff from the old gallery and new pictures as well so keep checking the gallery.

I’ve added screencaptures, stills and posters to the gallery of Julia Stiles 2009 movie The Cry of the Owl. Julia was great in this movie. If you haven’t seen it yet I really recommend it.

Producer says she’s not dead so she could be back…

Dexter producer Sara Colleton says Julia Stiles may return to the show next season to reprise her role as Lumen.

Colleton said, “She’s alive, so therefore the door is, of course, open [for her return].”

“From the very beginning we knew that Lumen would leave Dexter,” she confirmed. “It’s devastating for Dexter to lose her, and he has never wanted anything before like this. But at the same time there’s something so incredibly direct about Lumen that when she tells him why she has to leave, it makes perfect sense to him.”

Colleton also said that making Lumen likable was “a very hard thing to pull off”.

“Society holds women up to a different standard of behavior, so having a woman who wanted to avenge what was done to her and is single-minded about it was [difficult],” she said. “It’s a thorny, hard character that is not feminine. And yet Julia played it so real that you care about her, and you end up rooting for her and for this odd romance [with Dexter].”