Autumn in New York with Hitchcock

If you've been meaning to take in the hit Broadway play based on Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, looks like September just might be the month to do it.

The spy thriller is the best of Hitchcock's British-made films, and the play, a quick-change farce, has been a hit on both sides of the pond.

There's a whole slew of fun events connected with the play, including a showing of the newly remastered film and a short film competition cosponsored by the New York film Academy for would-be Hitchcocks to do satires/homages to the great director, entitled: How do You Mock Hitchcock?

And if you got the girth and the jowls, there's a Hitchcock lookalike contest. Send in a photo of yourself as the Master of Suspense. If you make it to the finals, you'll be invited to a performance of the play, and the audience will pick the winner.

BroadwayWorld.com has the details.

'39 Steps' producer Doug Denoff at the Drama Desk awards, by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images