Building `Fences'
We've seen San Francisco's Best of Broadway announcing shows in recent weeks, then canceling them. The Wiz disappeared, then Whistle Down the Wind, then the new Irish musical Ha'penny Bridge.Well, when you can't book a great show, you produce one. At least that's what SHN/Best of Broadway head Carole Shorenstein Hays is going to do. She broke into the world of Broadway producing in 1987 with August Wilson's Fences, and she has announced plans to revive the show this fall.Suzan-Lori Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Topdog/Underdog (which Shorenstein Hays produced), is slated to direct.Read the New York Times' coverage here.Read the San Francisco Chronicle's coverage here.For information about Best of Broadway, click here.