
Another show about a burst of intense creativity is headed for the Great White Way from London, The Pitman Painters, based on a book by William Feaver about miners who decide to become artists. That show opens in September at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater. And finally, ArtsBeat touches on rumors that Red, a play about American Modernist painter Mark Rothko starring Alfred Molina (most recently as the father in An Education), may also be making the cross-Atlantic leap in the spring.
And while I'm at it, from The L's theater inbox, comes this Off-Off-Broadway news: Young Jean Lee's sold-out Lear at Soho Rep just got extended another eight days, to February 14.