“ #Endgame, perhaps #SamuelBeckett’s greatest study of living in the shadow of mortality, has been given a starry revival at the The Old Vic, with #DanielRadcliffe and Alan Cumming finding the comic fireworks in cruel, old-age codependency.” #theatre buff.ly/2vakP5E

“ #TheInheritance is ending its #Broadway run on March 15...In general, the economics for two-part plays on Broadway have proven difficult, due to time constraints and the money required for two tickets" (1981 drama #NicholasNickleby an exception) #theatre buff.ly/2VorLXp

“ #GregKinnear will take over the role of Atticus Finch in #ToKillaMockingbird on #Broadway this spring...[a] Broadway debut for Kinnear, known for his film and television career... He joins the production on April 21, taking over the role from #EdHarris." buff.ly/2SZzqK4

“New York Theatre Workshop New York Theatre Workshop has revealed that [Pulitzer Prize finalist] Dance Nation #playwright #ClareBarron has penned the adaptation to its upcoming production of [Anton Chekhov's] #ThreeSisters directed by #SamGold." #theatre buff.ly/32u5gSh

"Life partners #BobbyCannavale and #RoseByrne, currently sharing the stage in #Medea...will co-star again next month in a one-night staging of #ArthurMiller's 'A View From the Bridge'...a benefit for The Acting Company [at] Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse." buff.ly/2waUNyZ

“ #Mark Rylance will bring to life the Age of Steel btw the Civil War and WWI with a newly-in-development play series titled #Steel. The six-part play, co-written by #PeterReder, [co-commissioned] by Guthrie Theater and American Repertory Theater” #theatre buff.ly/3c50Ndn

“At 64, #LaurieMetcalf has improbably become the leading claimant to a mantle once worn by the likes of #HelenHayes and #JulieHarris: First Lady of the American stage. (Metcalf has the #theater career that #MerylStreep might have had.” #theatre buff.ly/2utNfaa

"The Invisible King of #Broadway - #JohnGore has quietly built an empire with a stake in everything from funding to touring to ticket sales...The company of British-born John Gore [has] a hand in almost every Bway production in one way or another" #theatre buff.ly/2TgnUJj

“ #CalistaFlockhart...will take the stage of The Huntington #Theatre Company this fall in a new mounting of #OscarWilde's 'An Ideal Husband.' Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois will helm the production, slated to run [from Sept-25 through Oct-18].” buff.ly/3caUkh6

“A question that readers have always asked critics — How do you write about a show you’ve seen before? ...When even #Broadway premieres are so often second comings, how do we (critics, but also audiences) treat them as exciting arrivals?" #theatre #theater buff.ly/2HXWhzt

“ SoHo Playhouse [and] New Zealand #theatre movement F.C.C. to present... #WildDogsUnderMySkirt by Samoan poet #TusiataAvia...the play explores Pacific Island life through the universal themes of love, sexuality, oppression, abuse, segregation, and pride.” buff.ly/2VoKeDd

"Significant dark periods and major renovations meant #WestEnd #theatre saw a dip in attendances in 2019, with musicals suffering a rare drop in audiences... There were a total of 371 dark weeks in 2019, compared to 207 the previous year.” #westendtheatre buff.ly/3caXNw8

" #ToKillaMockingbird made history...when the play was performed in Madison Square Garden in front of approximately 18,000 New York City public school students...Video cameras were used to capture scenes at the far ends of the stage.” #theatre #theater buff.ly/32TiFDH

“ #AlPacino will participate in a benefit staged reading of... playwright #DavidRabe's 'The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummer,' at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Perf. Arts, in collaboration with The Shakespeare Center of L.A., on March-8.” #theatre buff.ly/2TMjr1o

"In the American #theater, will highly paid artistic directors survive? ... There are signs this longstanding model is beginning to crack... Some of the reasons are structural [some financial].” | #theatre Important and timely topic. Worth a read: buff.ly/2PRFkel

“ #TracyLetts says #TheMinutes...[is] an examination of how we make myths about ourselves as a society and how that informs how we treat one another... [it's] the first time Letts has appeared in a play of his own, let alone one on #Broadway." #theatre buff.ly/2uZZGuM

"A #musicaltheatre adaptation of #TheBookThief is set to have its world premiere [at Bolton’s Octagon]... [Based on #MarkusZusak’s novel] Set in 1930s Nazi Germany...the story of a young orphan as she 'enters a dangerous game of book thievery.'" #theatre buff.ly/39xziaM

" #IvoVanHove [slated to] direct a new stage adaptation of #StephenKing's #horror classic, #TheShining...penned by playwright #SimonStephens [Sea Wall, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Heisenberg, Punk Rock].” #theatre #theater buff.ly/2PRI4IF

“A new revival production of #MartinMcDonagh's #ThePillowman is set to run at the Duke of York's #Theatre in London this summer... The 12-week production will star #AaronTaylorJohnson and #StevePemberton.” #londontheatre #theater buff.ly/3cvULm5

“So many plays, including whole acres of #Shakespeare, are about struggles for dominance. #GrandHorizons and #Dracula wage a more elemental battle: to grant women their full personhood — not lesser than, but equal to.” #theatre #Broadway (worth reading): buff.ly/2TpQCaH