As Michael Riedel wrote in yesterday’s New York Post, ahead of the closure announcement, "Shrek was DreamWorks’ attempt to take on Disney, which conquered Broadway with Beauty and the Beast and . If DreamWorks closes Shrek— on which it’s spent something like $25 million — after only a year or so, that is a dramatic admission of defeat. And that’s something Jeffrey Katzenberg, who helped create DreamWorks in 1994 after leaving Disney on bad terms, is loath to do." And it’s not just Katzenberg who will be smarting today: it’s also another major blow to Neal Street Productions, the London-based theatre and film company that Sam Mendes set up in 2003 with his Donmar executive producer Caro Newling after they both left that theatre. Full Article at The Stage