PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 16-22: Miss Firecracker, Velocity and Shia LaBeouf Won't Play Broadway (For Now)
Not since Jeremy Piven bolted the 2008 revival of Speed-the-Plow, citing mercury poisoning from excessive sushi binging, have we had a Broadway star exit as odd and awkward as what went down this week, when "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf left the Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's Orphans dramatically parted ways.