Odds & Ends: Daveed Diggs to Team Up With Annaleigh Ashford, Bernadette Peters' Scottish Bow & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

Daveed Diggs: Part One
Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs will join forces with the previously reported Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford, Allegiance's Telly Leung, the Wicked-bound Judy Kaye and more for Broadway Belts for PFFF on February 29 at the Edison Ballroom. Emceed by Julie Halston, the sixth annual concert, featuring Great White Way stars in an evening of music and comedy, will honor the late AP theater critic Michael Kuchwara and others with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Sounds like we should all be in this particular room where it happens! Oh, and more Diggs to follow below...

Bernadette Peters' Scottish Bow
Bernadette Peters is set to play her first ever Scottish date at Edinburgh Playhouse on June 7. The Tony winner and doganizer’s date will follow her previously reported summer concerts at London’s Royal Festival Hall on June 3 and Manchester’s Opera House on June 5. One Broadway.com staff member is still looking into his air miles.

New Kenneth Lonergan Movie in Bidding War
Good weekend for Kenneth Lonergan at the Sundance Film Festival—after intense competition, the domestic rights to Manchester By The Sea, which he both penned and helmed, are likely to be picked up by Amazon for $10 million, Deadline reports. And this is not going to be one of those straight-to-streaming scenarios—a traditional theatrical release and awards season campaign is planned for the movie, which stars Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler and Broadway alum Michelle Williams. Meanwhile, Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling will soon see its world premiere off-Broadway, and Williams returns to the Main Stem in Blackbird on February 5.

One to Watch in London: The Truth
Another production to keep an eye on from London’s buzzy Menier Chocolate Factory (Broadway’s The Color Purple revival started out there). Florian Zeller’s The Truth will make its U.K. premiere at the venue in a new version by Tony and Oscar winner Christopher Hampton. The very same Hampton who adapted Zeller’s The Father, which will begin previews on the Main Stem on March 22 and is returning to the West End this spring. Directed by Lindsay Posner, The Truth is scheduled to play March 10 through May 7 at the Chocolate Factory, officially opening on March 16. According to press notes, the show follows: “Two couples. Friendship, suspicion, deceit….and the truth.”

Daveed Diggs: Part Deux
More Diggs of Hamilton news! Broadway’s Thomas Jefferson (and Marquis de Lafayette) will appear on Law & Order: SVU on February 3 alongside Anthony Ramos, who of course plays John Laurens / Phillip Hamilton in the hit tuner. In 41 Witnesses, Ramos takes on the role of a man accused of rape; Diggs appears once again as Louis Henderson (below), who is the lawyer for one of Henderson’s alleged partners-in-crime. Mr. Diggs, you can defend us any time!

(Photo by Will Hart/NBC)