Adam Driver might again give his regards to Broadway. This hunk from “Girls” and “Star Wars” may be hunking in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” That’s a mumble from Sam Gold, who likes hunks hunking onstage and has Daniel Craig (tired of tour jeté-ing as 007) doing Iago in “Othello” plus Oscar Isaac in Brooklyn playing “Hamlet,” which nobody’s seen in hours. Pre-“Girls,” Driver was in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” and “Man and Boy.”
Life upon the wicked stage. This season nearly 15 musicals including revivals. For geezers who can stay awake — some straight plays. The Public’s done big with Lynn Nottage’s drama “Sweat” so, like last year’s “Eclipsed” and from days of yore “Hamilton,” expected is it moves uptown to Midtown to the big town come spring. Maybe the Lyceum or the Cort.
Everybody’s got Tonys. Tony-winning Julie Taymor. She was eyeing Tony-winning playwright’s August Wilson Theater. The place has housed Tony-winning “Jersey Boys,” which is finally moving because the thing’s played since before Newark was founded. Julie’s revival of Tony-winning “M. Butterfly,” written by Tony-winning David Henry Hwang, is looking for a home. And Tony-winning Taymor & Co. does not come cheap.
“Man From Nebraska,” that new-old job by Pulitzer runner-up Tracy Letts, who wrote “August: Osage County,” took a while creeping back to NYC. It’s now set for Second Stage Theatre, as is Reed Birney, who just won a Tony for “The Humans.”
One more thing. Theater Hall of Fame’s 46th year honors Glenn Close, Phylicia Rashad, Brian Stokes Mitchell. That’s Nov. 14.
Fancy digs for sale in Ireland
Ireland’s famous imported leprechauns are leaving the Emerald Isle. Brit Angela Lansbury’s home on the aulde sod, predating the potato famine, is getting sold. The family wants her here and to stay put . . .
And American Michael Flatley. He doesn’t need money. He’s got more shamrocks than Limerick. But after slowing down those Irish jigs and gigs, Michael’s unloading his west Cork place.
Odds & ends
Lorraine Bracco: “Can you believe I’m now already turning 62!?” . . .
Anyone notice H. Clinton and D. Trump share almost the same color hair? . . .
Anyone notice all Emmy-winning guys first closed the jacket en route to the mike? Not one sat with buttoned tux . . .
Feeling the years, at former president Bill’s 70th birthday party, a friend whispered: “I’ll give you your 80th.” William Jefferson just smiled.
NATO power
Bill O’Reilly: “Our opportunity to win this new kind of war, our anti-jihadi tool, is to build up NATO.” Meanwhile, he’s building up readers. Week 1 of his newie “Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan” sold 250,000 copies.
Comics who stand with her
“Friends,” the Hillary Victory Fund announcement announces, “a night of comedy.” Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Aziz Ansari, Jane Curtin, Rachel Dratch” and another 5,000 names. Sunday. Tickets start at $250, photos with special guests start at $2,700. Not tax-deductible. Authorized by Hillary for America, Democratic National Committee and Democratic state parties, the invitation names two dozen states, using abbreviations. I’m quite sure that after November they will learn how to spell out the states.
From a Democrat: A Goodyear Blimp just had difficulty over Florida. Seems the Republican candidate used up all the hot air.
Snarked only in New York, kids, only in New York.