PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Oct. Nov. 2-8: After Midnight Earns Raves, Midsummer Opens at TFANA and Two Shows Announce Closings
After Midnight, the jazz revue which celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the famed Harlem nightclub the Cotton Club — using his original arrangements and performed by a world-class big band of 17 musicians hand-picked by vaunted jazzman Wynton Marsalis, and set against a narrative of Langston Hughes poetry — opened this week at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The production was "conceived" by …