The Bay Area has been pretty good to Lee Hall of late. Last year, his musical adaptation (with music by Sir Elton John) of his movie Billy Elliot received rapturous notices (though closed a month early) at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. It's a show that had already won the British scribe a 2009 Tony Award for best book of a musical. Hall's Broadway follow-up to Billy was a play called The Pitmen Painters, a…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 09:00AM on January 20, 2012