Off to do a new play in the nation's capital.

The amazingly talented Pam Mackinnon, director of "The Four of Us" and the new Edward Albee play, "Occupant," just cast me in a new play called "Maria/Stuart," which will have its world premiere at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington DC this August. And, to complete the dream, the play deals extensively with incest.

Woo hoo! A part in a play! Nice big juicy one too. And a summer in DC, where the already hot election will be steaming up that swampy burg that Lisa Simpson once called "the cesspool on the Potomac." But, to be fair, she was mad when she said that.

I have no opinion on Washington, as I've never spent any time there that I can remember. I worry that I will be lonely. But maybe lobbyists and campaign staffers will keep me company with their canvassing and special interest advocating.