George C. Wolfe's big-screen debut is 'Nights in Rodanthe'

The theater director, used to tackling weighty topics, focuses on a fragile love story. > IN THE theater, George C. Wolfe has tackled topics as varied as race, poverty, religion and AIDS as the director of such highly politicized works as Suzan-Lori Parks' "Topdog/Underdog," Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" and "The Colored Museum," which Wolfe also wrote. Now, the two-time Tony Award winner is making his big-screen directorial debut on Sept. 26 with Warner Bros.' "Nights in Rodanthe," an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel about a discontented homemaker (Diane Lane) and a workaholic surgeon (Richard Gere) who rediscover themselves during a brief love affair on North Carolina's Outer Banks. (link)