The theatre's annual report showed in detail just how much of a cash cow the production has become – and how the forthcoming play One Man, Two Guvnors could prove just as lucrative.
While we're discussing casting or a rewrite, it's not surprising to see August Wilson at a small table at the window, jotting down his own rewrites for a forthcoming play, while he devours some incredible blintzes.
The upcoming book, which will reproduce the script from the forthcoming play by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, shifts the action of the Harry Potter stories to 19 years after the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
One project she may stage there is a forthcoming play she wrote that started out as an adaption of "Citizen" — her best-selling book about quotidian encounters with racism — but has since evolved into an entirely new project.
She gatecrashes a party given by an old schoolfriend, Laurel (Chloë Sevigny), in a downtown loft apartment to impress a producer who might give her husband (Jonny Lee Miller) a role in a forthcoming play.
"I think it has to do with Obama's family moving into the White House, which could be the most radical example of neighborhood integration this country has ever seen," said Ms. Rugg, an editor of a forthcoming play anthology, "Reimagining 'A Raisin in the Sun,' " which includes "Clybourne Park".
The forthcoming plays "Enron" (with Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling as characters), "Next Fall," "Fences" and "Red," as well as the musicals "American Idiot," "Million Dollar Quartet" and "La Cage aux Folles" all feature men of fire-tested mettle who are grappling with identity, obsession, failure and mortality.
Tom Stoppard wittily recognizes the collaboration at the heart of theatre in his screenplay for the film Shakespeare in Love, portraying Christopher Marlowe as Shakespeare's great rival and having Marlowe casually suggest in an alehouse conversation that Shakespeare reconsider "Ethel" as the name of his heroine in a forthcoming play tentatively titled Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter.
Afterward, I wanted to lie on my couch, numb, but I raced over to Brooklyn to see a workshop performance of "A Star Has Burnt My Eye," my friend Howard Fishman's forthcoming play, with music, about the brilliant and mysterious singer-songwriter Connie Converse.
Already No 1 on Amazon and Waterstones's bestseller lists the day after it was announced, the book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will reproduce the text of the eponymous forthcoming play, opening in London on 30 July, and will be available a minute past midnight the following day.
