® Zany British stage adaptation of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps to transfer to Broadway next year.

® 50^th Dublin Theatre Festival will mount Long Days’ Journey Into Night with James Cromwell. 

® What the critics are saying about Grease:
Harford Courant: “Lively”
Reuters: “Not the One We Want”
Newsday: “Doesn’t Get Very Far”
New York Times: “Limp, but no one is ‘flat-out terrible”’
New York Daily News: “Reality TV and B’way Don’t Go Together”
New York Post: “Frightening”
The Journal News” Better Than Ever” 

® On the other end of the scale, Steve On Broadway gives us a more-than-raving review for August: Osage County at Chicago’s Steppenwolf. 

® From The Times online, a fascinating profile of Simon McBurney, whose potentially explosive All My Sons with James Gandolfini will see the lights of Broadway next year. “The Wall Street Journal called for [McMurney’s] deportation the last time he worked in New York, when his Brecht revival, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (starring Al Pacino) compared George Bush to Hitler.” 

® A Student’s Guide to Broadway: Summaries of some of Broadway’s student rush policies. 

® “Grease” is the word: Cara Joy talks about phony advances and all that publicity. 

® Philly.com reports that husband and wife team Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, of Spamalot and Curtains respectively, join the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra on tour. Say’s Danieley of this different performance venue: “Coming to this from the theater, I’m wanting four weeks of rehearsal plus a preview. Now, as long as I have time to learn the song, I like making music right in the moment and breathing together. With these kinds of orchestras, you can trust that they’ll do their job.” 

® The Obscene Jester clues us into Playwright Horizon’s Life for Five online lottery for $5 tickets.

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