Monster Mash: Kim Cattrall taking ‘Private Lives’ to Toronto, then Broadway; ‘Spider-Man’ in jeopardy?
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Leading lady: Kim Cattrall will reprise her London role of Amanda in Noel Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ in Toronto in a September-October engagement that is being billed as ‘prior to Broadway.’ (Playbill)
Back to the stage: Robert Sean Leonard will star alongside the previously announced Jim Belushi and Nina Arianda in Garson Kanin’s ‘Born Yesterday,’ opening April 24 on Broadway. (TheaterMania)
Rumor mill: The financial future of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ doesn’t look good following a string of negative reviews. (New York Post)
Accusations: Sotheby’s has been implicated in a cover-up surrounding a damaged Robert Cecil painting. (The Telegraph)
No, thank you: The mayor of Detroit has nixed a proposal for a public statue of the movie character RoboCop. (Detroit News)
Audience favorite: Sanjaya Malakar is the latest ‘American Idol’ alumnus in search of a New York theater career. He will join the off-Broadway family musical ‘Freckleface Strawberry,’ beginning Feb. 23. (Broadway.com)
New face: The National Symphony Orchesta announced the appointment of Steven Reineke as new principal pops conductor. (Washington Post)
Passings: Maria Altmann, who fought to recover Gustav Klimt’s gold portrait of her aunt, has died at age 94 in L.A. (Los Angeles Times)
Also in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight on why the partnership between the Getty Museum and the L.A. County Museum of Art on the Robert Mapplethorpe project makes sense; a review of the Mark Dresser Trio at REDCAT.
-- David Ng