News: "Sea Wall/A Life" recouped before closing on Broadway last week (read my review), an impressive feat for a short, albeit star-driven, run; "Be More Chill" (read my review) will open in London's "Off-West End" in 2020; check out the cast for the Broadway production of "Girl from the North Country" and the new cast of "To Kill a Mockingbird", starting in November; director Christopher Ashley and bookwriter Bridget Carpenter have joined Cyndi Lauper for the Broadway-aimed musical adaptation of the 1988 film "Working Girl"; Mike Birbiglia is turning his one-man show "The New One" (read my review) into a book, and "The Phantom of the Opera" will be adapted into a graphic novel
Mark Your Calendar: check out Film Forum's screenings of movie musicals this fall; Jay Armstrong Johnson will revive his annual "Hocus Pocus" concert at (le) Poisson Rouge, "I Put A Spell On You: The Return of the Sanderson Sisters", this Halloween; director Joe Mantello will interview theatre legend Angela Lansbury at a free NYPL event on November 14th; and Katrina Lenk will headline the New York Philharmonic's New Years Eve celebration of Stephen Sondheim
Read: some (very) early Tony predictions from Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, and this story about a transgender non-binary actor who was misgendered by critics
Watch: Geena Davis stops by critic's pick "Beetlejuice" (read my review) and scenes from "Chasing Rainbows", the new Judy Garland musical currently at Paper Mill Playhouse
First Look: of Katrina Lenk as Bobbie in the forthcoming revival of "Company"
RIP: Tony Award-winning and barrier-breaking actress, TV's "Julia" Diahann Carroll is dead at 84, and Tony Award-winning actor Anna Quayle is dead at 86
