All in tl;dr
Broadway did well at the Oscars last night; Broadway's last gossip columnist, Michael Riedel, has left the New York Post; Tatiana Maslany and Blair Brown will star in Tracy Letts' new play "Mary Page Marlowe"; Tony Shalhoub is out of "The Bands Visit" until May; "The Fantasticks" composer Harvey Schmidt is dead at 88
Second Stage's "Torch Song" is headed to Broadway in the fall; Gavin Creel out of "Hello, Dolly!" until May - Santino Fontana steps in March 13th; NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar" telecast announces full cast; the Parkland shooting survivors behind #NeverAgain are drama kids
"The Secret Garden" is headed to Broadway next season; starry "To Kill A Mockingbird" cast announced; "The Sting", "Unmasked", "Hundred Days", and "Chess" receive regional productions; Wayne Brady returns to "Kinky Boots"; Katharine McPhee will make Broadway debut in "Waitress"; Playwrights Horizons' 2018-2019 season announced; MCC Theater cuts ties with Neil LaBute; lights dim for Jan Maxwell
"Hangmen" and "The Ferryman" are headed to Broadway; Al Pacino may return as Tennessee Williams in "God Looked Away"; Whoopi's eyeing "Dolly!"; "Wicked" is the 7th longest running show; Jan Maxwell dead at 61, John Mahoney dead at 77
Hal Prince turns 90 and Carol Channing turns 97; Taylor Trensch steps into "Dear Evan Hansen" early; "The Greatest Showman" may get stage adaptation; "Head Over Heels" announces theatre and cast; Hayes Theatre reopens; piece from Howard Sherman on impact of long-running shows
New lottery for tickets to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"; Shakespeare in the Park season and first two 2018-2019 Manhattan Theatre Club plays announced; "Dave" to play D.C., "Tootsie" to play Chicago, "Ain't Too Proud" to play Los Angeles and Toronto; Grammys recap
"The Phantom of the Opera" turns 30; Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber join "Hello, Dolly!"; Sara Bareilles is back in "Waitress" alongside Jason Mraz; Palace Theatre re-development moves forward; diversity stats on New York stages; John Barton, RSC co-founded, dead at 89
"Head Over Heels" books the Hudson Theatre" "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Ragtime" original casts will reunite for benefit concerts in 2018; report finds Broadway audiences are younger and more-NYC based in '16-'17; columns of note by Peter Marks and Howard Sherman
Sara Bareilles joins John Legend and Alice Cooper's for NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live! in Concert"; Greenwich House is new home for ArsNova in 2019; Carolee Carmello and Hugh Panaro to leave "Sweeney Todd"; "Crazy for You" revival headed to Broadway
The top 10 top 10 lists of 2017; Broadway box office shatters records in 2017; Audra McDonald rumored for "Hello, Dolly!"; Peter Marks thinks the commercial new Broadway play is dead
"The Band's Visit" is the early favorite for Best Musical this June; "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" books the Lunt Fontanne Theatre for the spring; "The Minutes" delays February Broadway bow
"M. Butterfly" closes early; Adam Driver to star in "Burn This" in 2019; Donna Summer, Cher, Temptations and Go-Go's musicals aimed for Broadway; "Death Becomes Her" musical in development for Kristin Chenoweth; Sen-elect Doug Jones (D-AL) appeared in "To Kill A Mockingbird" on stage; TDF launching free tix program for military vets