Awards: Jackie Sibblies Drury's "Fairview" won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (get tickets while they last!), with critic's picks Heidi Schreck's "What the Constitution Means to Me" (read my review) and Clare Barron's "Dance Nation" (read my review) as runner ups; also, check out the list of the 2019 Drama League Award nominees
News: next season, Laurie Metcalf, Eddie Izzard, Russell Tovey, and Patsy Ferran will star in a Joe Mantello directed Broadway revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", marking Ms. Metcalf's fourth consecutive season starring in a Broadway play produced by Scott Rudin; you're doing fine, Oklahoma . . . a television series based on the musical "Oklahoma!" (read my review of the Broadway production) is in development; check out the just announced 2019-2020 seasons at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre and Playwright's Horizons
Let's go to the movies: a "Grease" movie prequel is in the works; Mike Faist, of "Dear Evan Hansen" fame, will play Riff in the upcoming film adaptation of "West Side Story"; Olga Merediz, Gregory Diaz IV, Jimmy Smits have joined the cast of the film version of "In the Heights"; and acclaimed stage director Lila Neugebauer will make her film debut in an upcoming, unnamed project starring Jennifer Lawrence
Mark your calendar: for a BroadwayHD screening of the London revival of "42nd Street" on May 1st, find out where here; and the annual "Stars in the Alley" free concert in Shubert Alley on May 10th
Read: this profile of Laurie Metcalf and the New York Times Style Magazine's "America 2024" issue featuring 15 new short plays by 15 American playwrights
Watch: video teasers of "Beetlejuice" and "Hadestown" (which opens tonight); and check out Cher joining the cast of "The Cher Show" on "The Tonight Show"
RIP: beloved actress Georgia Engel, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Drowsy Chaperone", is dead at 70
