The Week in Review

Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea Set to Reopen: Disney's Japanese parks, Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea are likely to reopen in April, according to a report in Variety. The newspaper adds that the big question has to do with availability of electric power, has been curtailed since the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. According to Variety, when the parks are open, they use enough electricity for 57,000 homes. Some of the possibilities on the table include reduced hours, keeping some attractions closed, or only opening one park.

Lucille Lortel Nominations Announced: Nominations have been announced for the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor achievement Off Broadway. In the scenic design category, nominees included Rachel Hauck, for the Edie Falco vehicle This Wide Night, Anna Louizos, for the clever subway station of In Transit; Jan Versweyveld for his starkly modernist approach to The Little Foxes, and Donywale Werle, nominated twice for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Peter and the Starcatcher. (Werle also won a Henry Hewes Award for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.)

Costume design nominees include Gabriel Berry, for her elaborate 18th-century creations see in The Coward; Jennifer Caprio, who created a panoply of New York looks for In Transit; Cait O'Connor, for a revival of the rarely seen The Witch of Edmonton; Emily Rebholz, for the purposely dreary working class clothes of This Wide Night, and David Zinn, who dressed the characters of Other Desert Cities in chic, late-'90s casual clothing.

Lighting design nominees include Betsy Adams, for the institutional prison look of When I Come to Die; Mark Barton, for constantly transforming the office environment of Gatz, Matt Frey, for the dreary, rainy-day feel of This Wide Night, Jesse Klug, for the pyrotechnics of The Elaborate Entrance of Chat Deity; and Ben Stanton, for the high Gothic atmosphere of The Whipping Man.

Sound design nominees include Mikhail Fiksel, for the hip-hop sound if The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Fitz Patton, for the increasingly sinister effects of The Other Place; Mic Pool, for the parade of gags in The 39 Steps; Jon Weston, for reinforcing the a cappella score of In Transit, and Ben Williams, for Gatz. The awards will be given out May 1.