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Kathleen Chalfant, Patricia Elliott, Pamela Payton-Wright, and Anne Pitoniak are among the performers who will participate in a new reading series by The No Frills Company, to run Mondays October 30-December 11 at the Cherry Lane Theater (38 Commerce Street). All three readings will be directed Pamela Berlin.

The series will kick off October 30 and November 6 with Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, about a surreal party of famous and not-famous women. Elliott, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Charlotte in A Little Night Music, and Payton-Wright, who will be starring next month in the George Street Playhouse's production of The Things You Least Expect, will be joined by Pippa Pearthree, Lola Pashalinski, and Sue Brady.

On November 13 and 20, Pitoniak, who starred in the original Broadway production of 'night, Mother, will headline George Furth's family drama Twigs. The cast will also include Brady, Sarah Baker, Cynthia Darlow, John FitzGibbon, Matte Osian, Joel Leffert, and Kenneth Boys.

On November 27 and December 11, Elliott and Chalfant will co-star in Eileen Atkins' celebrated play Vita and Virginia, about the relationship between writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Chalfant's many stage credits include Talking Heads, Wit and Angels in America, and she will star later this fall as Miss Havisham in a new Off-Broadway adaptation of Great Expectations.

All readings begin at 8pm. Tickets are $25, $10 for students or $55 for all three plays. To order, call 212-239-6200. For information, visit www.nofrillsco.org.