Show Announcements: Jessie Mueller, Tracy Letts, Armie Hammer, and Austin Pendleton will star in Letts' "The Minutes" at the Cort Theatre on Broadway this spring; Donmar Warehouse's "City of Angels" will transfer to the West End with Vanessa Williams and Rosalie Craig, as will Broadway's juggernaut "To Kill A Mockingbird"
News: Lear deBessonet will replace Jack Viertel as artistic director of City Center's acclaimed Encores! series of rarely revived musicals; Katharine McPhee will return to close "Waitress" on Broadway while Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel will step into the West End production; Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose will play Alyssa Greene in the Netflix film adaptation of "The Prom", and Andrew Garfield has been tapped to star in Lin-Manuel Miranda's film treatment of "Tick, Tick ... Boom!"; Spencer Liff will direct and choreograph the premiere of "Spring Awakening" in China; and Broadway's "Jagged Little Pill" will release a cast album on December 6th
Rumor: a long-rumored Broadway mounting of Hollywood producer Robert Evan's biographical play "The Kid Stays In The Picture" might be in the works, per Deadline
Milestone: "Wicked" is now the fifth longest running show in Broadway history, behind "The Phantom of the Opera", "Chicago", "The Lion King", and "Cats"
Look: at these rehearsal photos from the upcoming revival of "West Side Story"
RIP: Andile Gumbi, an alumnus of "The Lion King" on Broadway, is dead at 36, and Ann Crumb, a Tony Award nominee for "Aspects of Love", is dead following a long battle with ovarian cancer
