(Lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by George Abbott, newly adapted by Nicky Silver).
Before then, much of the script (which has been newly adapted by the playwright Frank McGuinness) is devoted to the exposition-crammed airing of old grievances.
The newly adapted book for the Broadway version of "Porgy and Bess" — but not the songs — will likely gain a new copyright that could be licensed.
This kind of ambiguity is often asserted to be a part of the toolbox of modernism in the arts, where ambiguity supposedly reigns, newly adapted for a pop form.
Back at Berry Hill, where every house in Adlington's road was draped with flags, Karen Wall, who lives near the Adlingtons, looked across at her street's newly adapted sign.
Diane Lane, Joel Grey, Tavi Gevinson, and Chuck Cooper headline the Roundabout's revival of "The Cherry Orchard" (starting previews Sept. 15, at the American Airlines Theatre), newly adapted by Stephen Karam, who proved his Chekhovian flair with "The Humans".
There's a scene in Martin Amis's Money, first published in 1984 and now newly adapted for TV, in which the narrator, John Self, plays a game of chess against one of his neighbours in Notting Hill, a novelist called Martin Amis.
To be fair, the power brokers, secret hoarders and blackmailers portrayed in "Luise Miller" (newly adapted by Mike Poulton) probably have an edge in amorality on their contemporary real-life equivalents.
The plays, both of them newly adapted by celebrated playwrights of our own time, stake out different corners of the blasted heath of matrimony: the Ibsen (written in 1890 and adapted by Jon Robin Baitz) begins just after a couple's unpromising honeymoon, while the Strindberg (1900, adapted by Richard Greenberg) is set on the eve of a couple's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
In the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical based on John Gay's "Beggar's Opera" and newly adapted by Wallace Shawn, she will join a cast that includes Alan Cumming as Macheath, Jim Dale as Mr. Peachum, Ana Gasteyer as Mrs. Peachum and Nellie McKay as Polly.
