THEATER
Richardson to star in Uhry play
Patricia Richardson (”Home Improvement”) and David Rasche (”Men in Black 3″) have been cast in the Alliance Theatre’s world premiere of “Apples & Oranges.” Alfred Uhry’s adaption of Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner’s memoir of mending fences with her dying brother will run Oct. 5-28 on the intimate Hertz Stage. The two-person play will be directed by Lynne Meadow, artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, which commissioned the adaption from the “Driving Miss Daisy” playwright. Tickets: 404-733- 5000, alliancetheatre.org/apples. HOWARD POUSNER

BOOKS
Trethewey keynote tickets available
Tickets to the AJC Decatur Book Festival keynote address by U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey are now available. The 8 p.m. Aug. 31 speech at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is free, but tickets are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis at the Schwartz Center box office, Charis Books &[CQ] More in Little Five Points, Little Shop of Stories in Decatur and Eagle Eye Bookshop near Emory. Book festival information: www.decaturbookfestival.com. HOWARD POUSNER