Newman won’t direct ‘Mice’ play
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From the Associated Press
Citing unspecified health issues, Paul Newman will not direct the fall production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” at Connecticut’s Westport Country Playhouse, the theater’s artistic directors announced Friday.
Newman, 83, will be replaced by Mark Lamos, a former artistic director of Hartford Stage, who has directed extensively across the country and in New York.
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