Week in Culture

The new Broadway season is just starting to heat up, and it is jammed full of boldfaced names. This week, Scarlett Johansson started previews, performing in A View From the Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber. Though official reviews are still weeks away, the initial reactions from the blogosphere have been, if not overwhelmingly positive, then pleasantly surprised. But Broadway pulled a huge coup this week by securing Denzel Washington for the Winter season—though it was announced in November that Washington would be starring in August Wilson’s Fences in April, details have emerged and they are even better than we thought. Doubt’s Viola Davis, who managed to steal an entire movie from Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, will co-star, and Kenny Leon, director of Broadway’s Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, and A Raisin in the Sun, will take the reins.