Closing Notices: the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnny" will close a month early this Sunday following poor sales (read my review); while two long-running hits announced closing dates: "Beautiful" will close on October 27th and "Waitress" will close on January 5th
Show Announcements: Jeremy O. Harris' "Slave Play" will play a strictly limited 17 week run at the Golden Theatre this fall (read my review of the sold out Off-Broadway run); Robert Schenkkan's "The Great Society", a sequel to 2014's "All the Way", will play a 12 week run at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre; and Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard, and Christian Borle will star in an Off-Broadway revival of "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Westside Theatre this fall while George Salazar, Amber Riley, and MJ Rodriguez helm a production at Pasadena Playhouse on the west coast
News: check out the cast of Ivo van Hove's upcoming "West Side Story" revival on Broadway; Pulitzer Prize winning play "Fairview" has extended to August 11th at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn; critic's pick "What the Constitution Means to Me" has recouped (read my review and see it before August 24th); and after curating 20 seasons, Jack Viertel will retire as artistic director of the annual Encores! at City Center
Development: Paul McCartney has written a musical adaptation of "It's a Wonderful Life"
Cast Albums: "Moulin Rouge!" will record a cast album, Paper Mill Playhouse will release a cast recording of 2018's "Half Time", and the songs from IFC's "Documentary Now" episode of "Co-Op" (a spoof of the legendary "Company: Original Cast Recording" documentary) will be released
Real Estate: check out details on the Palace Theatre's renovation
Read: this essential piece about the need for more critics of color
Listen/Read: this fabulous multimedia piece about the song “People Will Say We’re in Love” from critic's pick "Oklahoma!" (and read my review)
Watch: the trailer for "Cats" (in movie theatres on Christmas Day), this teaser for "The Prince of Egypt" musical premiering in London this winter, and highlights of Sondheim and Weidman's "Road Show" at City Center (playing now through Saturday)
RIP: Hugh Southern, former executive director of TDF and co-conceiver of the TKTS booth in 1973
