Monster Mash: Broadway’s ‘Spider-Man’ set to open; Billie Joe Armstrong in ‘American Idiot’ movie
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About time: After nearly seven months of previews, countless revisions and one high-profile dismissal, ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ is set to officially open Tuesday night at the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. (Playbill)
Defending Taymor: The cast and creative team of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ are rallying behind ousted director Julie Taymor. (Associated Press)
U2’s surprise: Bono and The Edge say they were wholly ill-prepared for putting Taymor’s ambitious ideas onstage. (New York Times)
Punk power: Billie Joe Armstrong will play the role of St. Jimmy in the planned movie adaptation of the musical ‘American Idiot.’ (Hollywood Reporter)
Mamet speaks out: Playwright David Mamet tells the Financial Times he’s crazy about Sarah Palin and that the British are inherently anti-Semitic. (Jerusalem Post)
What’s star power got to do with it? Is Angela Bassett in talks to co-star with Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of ‘The Mountaintop’? (Indiewire)
Stepping down: Speight Jenkins, director of Seattle Opera since 1983, is planning to step down in September 2014. (Seattle Times)
The writing on the walls: Street artists in Kabul, Afghanistan are gaining notice. (The Guardian)
Show of support: A small group of artists held a ‘sing in’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Friday in solidarity with detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Skeptical: Musicians of the Louisville Orchestra are questioning the numbers behind one of the documents the orchestra recently filed in federal bankruptcy court. (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Empty-handed: Broadway’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ is the biggest Tony loser of all time, going 0 for 12 at Sunday’s ceremony. (New York Times)
Also in the L.A. Times: Music critic Mark Swed reviews the 2011 Ojai Festival.
-- David Ng
