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PERFECT CRIME and the smash hit comedy THE OFFICE! A MUSICAL PARODY today announced that each show will continue on with an uninterrupted performance schedule.

A day after canceling upcoming performances due to concerns around the coronavirus, the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream encore presentations from the award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on the company website for the duration of the closure.

The Making A Musical podcast is announcing a special series called 'Lights Out.

As Broadway braces for a month of darkness, BroadwayWorld wants to make sure that you still get your theatre fix each and every day until April 13.

Broadway Licensing has secured approvals for live streaming over 400 plays from their Playscripts catalog.

The show must go on a?' until it can't.

Former Evan Hansen Andrew Barth Feldman will be joined by his Broadway friends this evening for a game of Jackbox Party Pack and you can join in the fun via livestream!

TodayTix has just released the following statement regarding the Broadway shutdown:

We're partnering with some incredible Broadway performers to launch a series of Living Room Concerts - performances direct to you from the living rooms of Broadway performers! Up first we've got JAGGED LITTLE PILL's Kathryn Gallagher performing 'You Learn!'

Trying to find the light in dark times, Laura Benanti is asking her high school-aged followers to send videos on Instagram of them singing songs from their cancelled shows.

Disney has announced that its stopping production on its feature films until this whole coronavirus outbreak blows over, which includes the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, according to Deadline.

Judi Dench, who played Old Deuteronomy in the recent live-action adaptation of Cats, shared that she has yet to see the Tom Hooper-directed film.

MCC Theater has released the following statement regarding the cancellations and postponements of their shows: 

Earlier this week, The Ensemblist launched a new podcast mini-series a?oeCOVID-19 in the Theatre.

Which productions are currently running, cancelled, and postponed in NYC? We've got a comprehensive list of all the changes.

Sara Bareilles has just announced, via a statement on the Waitress London Twitter account, that she and Gavin Creel will be ending their performances in the show on 14 March, instead of playing until 21 March as arranged.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that the Second Stage Theater production of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, which was previously set to begin previews April 2, has pushed its start date by two weeks to April 14 due to the COVID-19.

In today's very special episode, Spencer is joined by Grey Henson to give us a history lesson on one of his favorite under-rated musicals- Grey Gardens.

Due to public health and safety concerns, last night's Broadway opening of SIX was sadly cancelled, as are performances through to 12 April.

All across the country theatres are temporarily shutting their doors to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

In the wake of Broadway going dark because of the threat of COVID-19, Telly Leung has made an alternative plan to entertain.

The producers of Six, the new Broadway musical which was set to open yesterday, March 12, has asked critics to hold their reviews until after the Broadway shutdown has ended.

A new video has been released of Lucie Jones performing Hold On from The Secret Garden!

Questions have been raised about why Moulin Rouge! chose to cancel its matinee yesterday prior to the industry-wide shutdown that was announced shortly after.

Tim Minchin today releases the first single from his debut studio album via BMG.