tl;dr for August 21st

• Casting News: Kerri Russell is joining Adam Driver for a previously announced revival of "Burn This" on Broadway; theatre and dates TBA; Alex Brightman and Sophia Anne Caruso will star in the pre-Broadway engagement of "Beetlejuice" (the musical) in Washington, D.C.; Tony nominee Jennifer Simard ("Hello, Dolly!", "Disaster!") will replace Kerry Butler in Critic's Pick! "Mean Girls" on Broadway 
• Director Anne Kauffman will be the new Artistic Director of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series
• An album of John Kander's score for "The Beast in the Jungle" (read my review) will be released in September, and The Bengson's "Hundred Days" (read my review) will also release a cast album in September
• IFC’s "Documentary Now!" series will parody D.A. Pennebaker's famous documentary about the making of the "Company" cast album in a 2019 episode starring John Mulaney, Taran Killam, Richard Kind, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Alex Brightman
• Take a look at the 12 most revived plays since 1950