Meet the first-nighters at The Lyons and Ghost The Musical, which opened on Broadway on the same night.

Meet the first-nighters at The Lyons and Ghost The Musical, which opened on Broadway on the same night.

Caligula, Meet John Doe and The Great American Trailer Park Musical are among 15 shows selected by a panel to play in the ambitious inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) in September and October.

Looking ahead to the 2014 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., a new candle-lit theatre is christened, Shakespeare turns 450, Gillian Anderson in Streetcar, Angela Lansbury back in the West End for the first time in nearly 40 years, plus productions of Fatal Attraction, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Miss Saigon and a new adaptation of The Full Monty.

Looking ahead to the 2014 spring theatre season in London and the U.K., a new candle-lit theatre is christened, Shakespeare turns 450, Gillian Anderson in Streetcar, Angela Lansbury back in the West End for the first time in nearly 40 years, plus productions of Fatal Attraction, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Miss Saigon and a new adaptation of The Full Monty.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

This week passed without reports that any critics had checked in at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital suffering from physical exhaustion. That was a minor miracle, given that reviewers had to take in, and write up, seven Broadway shows in the space of five days. The Broadway traffic before the Tony Awards cutoff on April 26 was such that two shows were forced to share both April 23 and April 26 as their opening night. Way to leave it to the last minute, guys.

This week passed without reports that any critics had checked in at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital suffering from physical exhaustion. That was a minor miracle, given that reviewers had to take in, and write up, seven Broadway shows in the space of five days. The Broadway traffic before the Tony Awards cutoff on April 26 was such that two shows were forced to share both April 23 and April 26 as their opening night. Way to leave it to the last minute, guys.

The Yale Repertory Theatre confirms that it will close the world-premiere run of James Magruder's translation/adaptation of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid on schedule, Oct. 9. Yale Rep launched its 2000 season with the show on Sept. 16. Harold Pinter's Betrayal will be Yale Rep's next show, running Oct. 21-Nov. 13.

The Yale Repertory Theatre launches its 2000 season on Sept. 16 with a world-premiere James Magruder translation/adaptation of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid. Directed by Mark Rucker The Imaginary Invalid runs through Oct. 9.