Briefs: Cultural events in the city

• Pittsburgh Public Theater presents "Cabaret" at 8 p.m. Performances continue through Feb. 25 at the O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave. Downtown. $39.50-$54.50. 412-316-1600.

• City Theatre presents "The Muckle Man" at 7 p.m. Performances continue through Feb. 18 at City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-$45. 412-431-2489.

• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents Curtis Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. at the Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $15.50-$32.50. 412-456-6666.

Weather leads to Feinstein concert cancelation

text:The Michael Feinstein concert scheduled for tonight at Heinz Hall has been cancelled due to the weather.

Refunds for tickets purchased by credit cards will be credited to the card. Cash purchase will be refunded by check, available at the Heinz Hall box office or by mail if requested.

Details: 412-92-4900.

Writer Albom to re-team with Oprah's company for movie

Mitch Albom says he'll work with Oprah Winfrey 's Harpo Films Inc. for a TV movie based on his best-seller "For One More Day."

Albom, a Detroit Free Press columnist, told the newspaper for a story Tuesday that Winfrey saw the book in manuscript form and expressed early interest. He wrote the teleplay and will serve as an executive producer. Lloyd Kramer will direct.

"For One More Day" tells the story of a former baseball player who plans to end his life but finds redemption when he gets the chance to spend another day with his dead mother.

Casting is under way, and filming is expected to begin in July. The two-hour movie is tentatively scheduled to air in December on ABC-TV.

The movie will carry the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" title, as did the 1999 TV film adaptation of Albom's "Tuesdays With Morrie."

-- The Associated Press

Singers' Hollywood home broken into

The Hollywood Hills mansion of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill was burglarized over the weekend, police said Tuesday.

The home was broken into between Friday and Monday when no one was home, said police Sgt. Lee Sands. A person arriving at the house Monday morning discovered the crime and called police, he said.

Police would only say an unspecified amount of money was taken and they had no immediate suspects.

The house is not the couple's principal home, said Paul Freundlich, Hill's publicist. The singers, who live in Nashville, Tenn., were not in Los Angeles for Sunday night's Grammy Awards, he said.

-- The Associated Press

Star's brother signs on to direct 'Medium' episode

Patricia Arquette will soon be taking orders from her little brother.

David Arquette , who's married to "Dirt" actress Courteney Cox , will direct an episode of NBC's drama "Medium."

"I was always a bossy little girl, and being David's older sister, I've bossed him around quite a bit. Now that he'll be directing me it will be payback time," Patricia Arquette, 38, said Monday. "I think it will be really interesting being directed by David because he knows me so well and I feel so safe with him. I think I'll be able to go to some of my darkest places."

The 35-year-old David Arquette, who stars in ABC's "In Case of Emergency" and recently directed his first feature film ("The Tripper" being released in April), said he was "really excited to be able to work with my sister Patricia."

Miguel Sandoval , who plays District Attorney Manuel Devalos in "Medium," also will direct an episode of the show.

"Miguel expressed an interest in stepping behind the camera early in the first season, and ever since he brought it up, I have sensed that this 'new role' might be a great fit for him," show creator Glenn Gordon Caron said.

-- The Associated Press

Coppola plans film on immigrant family

Francis Ford Coppola will follow-up his directorial return with a vaguely autobiographical film, the director said.

Coppola, who is currently putting the final touches on "Youth Without Youth," his first film in a decade, plans to next produce and direct "Tetro." The film will follow the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family not unlike Coppola's.

Set in Argentina (not Coppola's native New York), "Tetro" fictionalizes what Coppola calls his "very unusual family," which has been populated by artists since his father's generation.

"I think at this age, I'm more disposed to look at my life in terms of dramatic material," the 67-year-old filmmaker said Tuesday, speaking from his home in Napa Valley, Calif. "Maybe I'm less frightened or more confident about writing something that is fiction even though it has its basis in real things that I've seen and felt. Maybe it won't offend anybody, I hope."

"Tetro" will star Matt Dillon , Coppola's third film with the actor, the other two being 1983's back-to-back "The Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish." Production is scheduled to begin in Buenos Aires late this year.

"Youth Without Youth," starring Tim Roth , was filmed in Romania and is due out in the second half of 2007.

-- The Associated Press

Bandaras says Spain has improved since his youth

Antonio Banderas returned to the southern Spain of his youth and found things much improved for "Summer Rain," his second film as a director.

"Summer Rain" is a coming-of-age tale set in Malaga in the late 1970s as Spain emerged from the decades-long dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.

"The engine of what I have been for good or for bad in my life ... started there when I was 17, 18, 19," Banderas said Monday of his decision to return to Malaga for the Spanish-language movie, which was presented outside the main competition at the Berlin film festival.

The movie, based on a novel by his childhood friend Antonio Soler , follows the lives, loves and dreams of a group of teens growing up in the Mediterranean resort. Stars of the film include Maria Ruiz and Alberto Amarilla .

Banderas, 46, recalled being laughed at for wanting to be an actor. The '70s were, he said, "years in which they actually didn't allow me to dream -- not only in a political context but in my family, even my friends."

-- The Associated Press

Nicky Hilton sued over hotel renovation

A Chicago development group is suing heiress Nicky Hilton for breach of contract over a delayed hotel renovation project just south of the city's downtown.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court, Robert Falor Investments and Grand USA Hotel Supply & Restaurant allege Hilton hasn't kept up her end of an April 2006 agreement in which she promised to promote the redevelopment project known as Nicky O's Chicago, a Nicky Hilton Hotel.

Hilton also allegedly contracted out interior design work she was supposed to perform and tried to charge it back to the developer, the suit alleges. The development group also claims Hilton misrepresented that she and her associates had experience in hotel design.

Paul Fisher , Hilton's agent, also is named in the suit.

The Nicky O hotel was set to replace the Blake Hotel in Printer's Row, located in the historic Morton Salt building. The project, along with a similar renovation along Miami's swank South Beach, were to serve as Hilton's foray into the family's signature business, although neither Nicky O hotel would be affiliated with Hilton Hotels.

Both proposed hotels have been plagued by delays, and neither has opened yet.

-- The Associated Press