Show Announcements: critic's pick "American Utopia" will return to Broadway this fall at the Hudson Theatre, for a run through January 2021; Audra McDonald will star in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer; and Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will lead a Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" in spring 2021
News: October 2021, Disney will release a filmed version of "Hamilton" on Broadway with the original cast; Spike Lee will film critic's pick "American Utopia" for future release; the cast album for "Sing Street" will be released digitally on March 26th, ahead of an April 19th opening on Broadway; three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker revealed she has been diagnosed with ALS; Jeremy Jordan will replace Gideon Glick in "Little Shop of Horrors" starting March 17th; a performance of "Jagged Little Pill" was evacuated then cancelled after someone in the audience released pepper spray; "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will open at a site-specific venue in Tokyo in 2022; Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a new song for the upcoming "In the Heights" film; and a new film version of "Porgy and Bess" is in the works
Rumor: a new stage musical adaptation of "Black Orpheus" directed by George C. Wolfe might be headed to Broadway, and "The Heart of Rock and Roll", the Huey Lewis musical, still has Broadway ambitions, following its premiere at San Diego's Old Globe in 2018
Controversy: read the latest on the "West Side Story" casting controversy here
Watch: this rehearsal video from this week's Encores! presentation of "Mack and Mabel" and this "60 Minutes" profile of "West Side Story"
RIP: Kevin Conway, star of "The Elephant Man" and "Of Mice and Men" on Broadway, is dead at 77; boundary-breaking actor and dancer Paula Kelly, best known for "Sweet Charity", is dead at 77; stage and screen actor Lynn Cohen is dead at 86; and Tony Nominee Orson Bean is dead at 91
tl;dr for February 17th
PODCAST: "The Fabulous Invalid" - Episode 64: Mack & Mabel: City Center Encores!
