Back in 2023, Sean Hayes won a Best Actor Tony for Good Night, Oscar, in which he played actor, pianist and raconteur Oscar Levant.  The show closed in August of 2023.  If you missed it, have no fear.  It’s just been announced that Hayes will bring the show to London’s Barbican Theatre – thus making his West End debut.  It’s a limited seven-week run starting on July 31^st and ending on September 21^st.  So book your trip now.

This made me look something up.  I remembered George Clooney announcing that he would be making his Broadway debut in a play adaptation of his film Good Night and Good Luck.  I wondered what ever happened to that.  Well, turns out the show is opening on April 3^rd at the Winter Garden Theatre.  His Edward R. Murrow will allegedly only run for two months.  But something tells me that could be extended.

Last week, Joy Behar debuted her latest oeuvre, My First Ex-Husband (the title was the idea of Behar’s second husband), based on discussions she had with dozens of divorced women.  She distilled their stories into eight monologues – delivered onstage by four women in black.  It’s a performance style that has worked well for shows like The Vagina Monologues and Love, Loss and What I Wore.  Similarly, her cast will rotate every four weeks.  The opening night company featured Behar alongside bestie Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh and Adrienne C. Moore.  The next cast will kick off February 26^th and includes some of our favorites – Susan Lucci, Judy Gold, Cathy Moriarty and Tonya Pinkins.  It plays at the MMAC Theatre in NYC.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have signed with Apple TV+ for an “untitled brothers comedy series”.  The show is a fictionalized version of their lives – they are playing McConaughey and Harrelson as if they were brothers.  But it’s the next name which caught my eye.  The fabulous Holland Taylor will play Matthew’s mother, “Ma Mac”.  If they’re looking for a title, might I suggest, Two and a Half Bosom Buddies?