After a critically lauded run last year at Primary Stages, Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" is moving to Broadway.
The announcement came two days after the show completed a financially strong but critically lambasted run in Washington on the third leg of a five-city United States tour.
Following its critically praised run at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, "This Beautiful City," the latest work from the theater troupe the Civilians, has a premiere scheduled for New York.
It had a critically praised run last year at the Royal National Theater in London, where perhaps the message about the post-World War II American experience as a soothing but pallid echo of life in prewar Europe can be received more cheerily.
Last year it was seen as a coup that dealers like Gavin Brown, Maureen Paley and the proprietors of Sprueth Magers signed on for this more experimental venue, where the majority of participating galleries, though influential and critically esteemed, run much smaller businesses.
The anxiety has endured, though Ms. Bennett has been playing versions of Garland on and off for more than a decade, including a more fictionalized one in a London pub production of this play — then known as "Last Song of the Nightingale" — and through last winter's critically acclaimed run of it in the West End.
Some fans of the 1971 musical about old friendships and unhappy marriages, which has a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman, were rooting for this "Follies" to be the one to make money, given that the original Broadway production was a financial flop and the 2001 Broadway revival (by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company) had a brief, critically drubbed run.
"Newsies" also represents the second Disney-developed show to receive attention from Broadway theater owners this year; the other show, "Peter and the Starcatcher," inspired by Peter Pan, is widely expected to open on Broadway in the spring after its critically acclaimed run at New York Theater Workshop last season.
That outfit Kazee is referring to would be for the spotlight he'll soon be in again as the star of "Once," the little musical with the big heart that's heading to Broadway (it's in previews now) after celebrating a critically acclaimed run off Broadway at the East Village's New York Theater Workshop.
And he's just come off a critically acclaimed double run on Broadway of No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot with his bestie Ian McKellen, who officiated at their wedding.
