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After enormous amounts of hype, and a painful development process that lasted years and years, and seemed to involve the hiring and firing of pretty much everybody in Hollywood, the new Superman film is finally here. The creative team who ended up working on it are Bryan Singer as director (who's got the comic-book-to-movie props in his resume - albeit for the other comic company - having directed the first two X-Men movies), "unknown" Brandon Routh as Superman, practically unknown Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, well-known Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, and a bunch of famous folks rounding out the cast, including Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, and even a computer-resurrected Marlon Brando. I was also pleased to note La Femme Nikita herself, Peta Wilson, in a small role. And hey, is that Cyclops as Lois Lane's boyfriend?! It is! It's James Marsden! That's just wrong. Marvel and DC shouldn't mix like that. It could cause some kind of...crisis.

This week's quote comes from Enid Bagnold, who once said: "The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name." Now, on with the listings!

A new month means plenty of new theatre in the area. See below for the great shows going up this week!

Art Spiegelman, author and artist behind the ground-breaking, best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel , will be speaking about the history of comics and their changing role in society and popular culture. (And, we hope, explaining why he insists on spelling the word "comics" as "comix." Phillyist is a fan of Speigelman and has great respect for him as a storyteller and innovator - but we're not altogether sure that his Pulitzer gives him the right to change the spellings of words willy-nilly.) The program starts at 8PM, and costs $8 ($5 for students).