Real Estate: critic's pick! "Network" (read my review) has extended its run at the Belasco Theatre through April 28th; after closing on Broadway on January 6th, "The Play That Goes Wrong" will transfer to New World Stages Off-Broadway in February
Announcements: City Center's Encores! Off-Center series next summer will feature "Working", "Promenade", and "Road Show"; "Lifespan of a Fact" has recouped (read my review)
Casting: check out the cast for Duncan Sheik's new musical, "Alice by Heart" at MCC Theater; the entire Off-Broadway cast of "Be More Chill" will transfer to Broadway (read my review); Lea Salonga will return to critic's pick! "Once On this Island" (read my review) for the final week, replacing Michelle Williams who departed under doctors orders; Christian Dante White ("Hello, Dolly!") will be the next Freddy Eynsford-Hill in "My Fair Lady" (read my review)
Controversy: Jack O'Brien has replaced Gregory Mosher as director of the upcoming Broadway revival of "All My Sons" following disapproval from the estate of Arthur Miller over Mosher's casting of two actors of color in principal roles, fearing it would whitewash the racism of the play's 1947 setting
Listen: to Patti LuPone sing "The Ladies Who Lunch" on the forthcoming West End cast album of "Company" (jump to the one hour 33 minute mark) (read my review of "Company"), and the new cast recording of critic's pick! "The Prom" (read my review)
RIP: Galt MacDermot, composer of "Hair" and "Two Gentlemen of Verona", is dead at 89
