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Tony-winners In the Heights and August: Osage County are headed from Broadway to Hollywood, according to Variety. The Weinstein Company has optioned August: Osage County and plans a 2011 release date...

Signature Theatre Company's (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) production of HOME will begin previews on Tuesday, November 11. HOME is the second production of Signature's 2008-2009 season, celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).

On Tuesday, November 11th, Billy Elliot the Musical will be featured on ABC's "The View." Composer Elton John, and stars David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish will join the ladies of "The View" to discuss the new musical.

"A gay arts group has sued the city of Milwaukee in federal court for violating its free speech rights three years ago when officials shut down a musical revue featuring nudity. The city temporarily shut down performances of 'Naked Boys Singing!' in August 2005 while it considered the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center's application for a theater permit. The group later received a permit and reopened the show."...

"There are no hard statistics for how many fledgling drama groups emerge each year in the Puget Sound region. Judging from theater listings, a conservative estimate is at least a half dozen. And you can add that to more than 50 existing companies." The treacherous financial landscape doesn't seem to be discouraging newcomers....

A troubled, solitary man nearing the end of his life shares a living room with the ghosts from his past in "Saturn Returns," a wintry new play by Noah Haidle that opened on Monday night.

"News that U.S. anti-gay campaigner Fred Phelps is encouraging followers from his Westboro Baptist Church to travel to Vancouver to protest against a production of The Laramie Project, has met with outrage. In response, a cast member of Fighting Chance Productions set up a Facebook page ... and within 36 hours had 1,200 members interested in a counter-rally."...

A festival at San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros presents a series of short plays with gay or queer themes from the entire span of the 20th century - from a 1907 Russian "mini-musical" through Tennessee Williams and Joe Orton to a Tony Kushner one-act from 1998. The selection "poses some fascinating then-and-now questions about how gay life is seen in a culture that keeps rotating the lens to sharpen the view, blur it or blot it out altogether."...