"I have no interest in opting out of it," Stewart says of a possible third X-MEN. "If asked to do a third one I'll be happy to be involved. As far as I'm aware, the studio hasn't even started thinking about a third one."

The British actor says he hopes THE MASTER BUILDER--a new adaptation by NEMESIS scribe John Logan--will make it to New York but American audiences shouldn't discount a trip across the pond.

"We really are hoping that Americans will think of coming back to London this year," he says. "The theater needs American visitors."

In related news, Playbill reports that Stewart has indeed agreed to appear in a new production of THE CARETAKER for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York. The play, an absurdist story written in the 1960s by British playwright Harold Pinter, focuses on two neurotic brothers whose lives are upset when they meet a vagrant.

Another TREK veteran, Wallace Shawn, who played the Ferengi leader 'Grand Negus Zek' throughout DEEP SPACE NINE, will also be featured in Roundabout's fall season. Shawn has adapted Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical THE THREEPENNY OPERA, a German play set in nineteenth century England. The last production of the play was in 1989 as 3 PENNY OPERA featuring Sting.

Read more at Playbill. Thanks to 'CaptBateson' for the Netscape article.