On stage, Jones also directed Old Times, The Hothouse and, at New York's Roundabout Theatre, a hit version of No Man's Land, starring Jason Robards Jr and Christopher Plummer, as well as The Caretaker.
Besides "Avenue Q" and a version of "Big River," a Roundabout production with Deaf West Theater, a deaf stage company based in Los Angeles, there isn't another opening until October.
This is a riveting evening of theater, even for those who saw the movie, the fine 2004 production by the Roundabout Theater on Broadway or any other version.
Roundabout said on Monday that its musical version of "Death Takes a Holiday" would feature a book by Peter Stone ("1776") and Thomas Meehan ("The Producers"), and music and lyrics by Maury Yeston ("Nine"), and will be directed by Doug Hughes ("Doubt").
They are laid out in a broad roundabout that echoes Abu Dhabi's star-crossed version of "starchitect" branding (Foster, Gehry, Nouvel).
With its narrow streets and tiny roundabouts, it looks like the miniature resort version of a British colony, though much of the place is a bit rickety and could use a fresh coat of paint.
This season Wallace Shawn's searing version of "Threepenny Opera" was produced by the Roundabout, and Wally certainly qualifies as a great American playwright and as a thinker whose politics resonate powerfully with Brecht's.
Which means losing the simplicity of the earlier version of the app… So swings and roundabouts there.
Also, while his own reinterpretations are taking shape, others are making similar efforts--including a stripped-down version of Into the Woods, produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, which completed its run earlier this month.
