Lawyers for Charles Lisanby, a longtime production designer for the stage and movies, are asking a federal judge in Manhattan to stop Radio City Music Hall from taking its Christmas show on the road.
Lisanby, who worked on the music hall's Christmas spectaculars from 1979 to 1993, says that Radio City is violating its agreement with him by licensing the Christmas show to presenters in Branson, Mo., and Myrtle Beach, S.C. In particular, he maintains, a 10-minute adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" that he devised and designed is being recreated in the other shows without his permission.- RESTORATION - In a victory for serious drama, officials at New York University announced that they would restore the Provincetown Playhouse, a historic New York theater that presented the early works of Eugene O'Neill, and turn it into a performance space for theater education.
The project will be overseen by the School of Education. The theater, in Greenwich Village, presented O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" on Nov. 3, 1916. - Peter Marks