The much-lauded La Jolla playhouse is getting new leadership, and the Paper Mill Playhouse enjoyed a star-studded rally last night. (Liza was there!) Let's hope it was enough.

Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House opened well in Seattle, the Central Asian Theater Festival opened in Dushanbe (I shit you not) and Edward Albee will help decide that fate of us all in Boston. (Better him than me.)

Meanwhile, the Coachella Valley's first regional theatre has failed, for now. Maybe they should have waited for answers from Albee, or maybe they should have tried something more reliable, like a Neil Simon festival.