“Damsels in Distress” director Whit Stillman’s in town to cast his next project. “It’s based on a funny but obscure late 18th-century work that reads a bit like an Oscar Wilde play,” he told us. “We expect to shoot in Britain or perhaps at the Anglo-Irish great houses near Dublin.” He mysteriously added he’s met with a British actress here: “There are a number of good star parts.”