New York Times - Theater

Tennessee Williams’s darkly operatic one-act play becomes a proper opera in a new adaptation by the composer Courtney Bryan.

A new play is its own piece of art: A first-person account of an official inquiry into an artist’s use of private investigation databases to create work.The artist Julia Weist at her studio in Durham, N.Y.

A veteran stage actress, she starred in two of Britain’s most beloved TV comedies of the 1970s, “The Good Life” and “To the Manor Born.”Penelope Keith in 1977 in a scene from the sitcom “The Good Life.”

The show about the country music queen, “Dolly: A True Original Musical,” will begin performances on Broadway in December.“Dolly: A True Original Musical,” a long-in-the-works show about the country queen’s life and career, will open next Jan. 19.

He excavated a treasure hoard of manuscripts by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others that were found in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J.Robert Kimball in 1998 at the Cole Porter Foundation in Manhattan. He was an expert on Porter and other giants of American popular song.