Sheik and Sater are working on two new musicals. The Bang and the Clatter are bringing forgotten playwrights back to Akron. Albarn and Hewlett of Gorillaz fame "turn the Chinese fable of the Monkey king into an all-singing, all dancing spectacular". Cynthia Hopkins's amazing Must Don't Whup 'Um has shows coming up in Philadelphia and Chapel Hill, and there are tourdates, video, and audio here. English Touring Theatre company and the Watermill Theatre have recently appointed new artistic directors, in both cases - OMG! - women. Roger Crane, 61 years of age, is about to see his first play open on London's West End. Wallenstein, all ten hours, is being performed in an abandoned beer warehouse in the gritty working-class district of Neukolln ... the show’s 1,200 audience members are fed, watered and relieved during four intermissions.