Demond Green News

Variety reports the casting for the upcoming La Jolla production of The Wiz, directed by Des McAnuff. The show will feature Wayne Brady (Scarecrow), David Alan Grier (the Wizard), Nikki M. James, (Dorothy), Tituss Burgess (the Lion) and Michael Benjamin Washington (Tin Man).

Tina Landau's New Age-y production features music by GrooveLily

Tina Landau's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring Lea DeLaria, runs at the Paper Mill Playhouse through May 21st

Lea DeLaria will star as Bottom in a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tina Landau, that will be presented as the first joint production of the McCarter Theatre and the Paper Mill Playhouse