Here’s a late-breaking update to the David Hare event we blogged about this morning: Wallace Shawn will be joining Mr. Hare on stage. 

Shawn is instantly recognized by millions for his film roles, perhaps most famously as the evil Vizzini in The Princess Bride ("Inconceivable!"). He made his film debut in Woody Allen’s Manhattan. But he is also a highly accomplished playwright (My Dinner with Andre, The Fever, The Designated Mourner).

Shawn will introduce Hare Monday night, and following Hare’s reading from Stuff Happens, the two will sit down for an extended interview.

Not to be missed.

· Pretty Little Head: We’ve got a big name at Makor on Monday, December 5: Nellie McKay stops by for a rare cabaret appearance.

· On Persian Jewry: Trivia time: Which Middle Eastern country has the largest Jewish population after Israel? Iran, of course. Learn all about the 20,000-strong Iranian Jewish community and minority life in the Islamic Republic with the 2005 film The Jews of Iran. Screening at Makor, Tuesday, December 6.

· Sufi Sounds: Turkey’s Lalezar Ensemble performs the works of Sufi composer Ismail Dede Efendi and Whirling Dervish songs on Thursday, December 8.

· The Good Kind of Avant-Garde: New-music masters eighth blackbird stop by Kaufmann Concert Hall for their only New York appearance on Saturday, December 10.

· Snark? Movie Critics? Never: Film critics Armond White (New York Press), Stephen Holden (New York Times), Glen Kenny (Premiere) and Thelma Adams (Us Weekly) discuss The Best and Worst Films of 2005 at the Steinhardt Building on Sunday, December 11. Wine is included.

· Senators and Correspondents: 20/20’s Lynn Sherr discusses how politics affects working families with Sen. Barbara Boxer on Sunday, December 11.

Politicized English playwright David Hare has been called “Harold Pinter’s successor” and “Britain’s leading contemporary playwright.” Lately, he’s been specializing in plays about the Middle East (Stuff Happens, Via Dolorosa, A Map of the World), and he’ll be stopping by the Y next Monday, December 5 to talk about the art of playwriting.

In the meantime, Hare recently told the Guardian about his favorite books of 2005 (along with 42 other writers).