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In the wake of COVID-19 and cancellations of fringe festivals across the globe, Iceland's RVK Fringe Festival is forging ahead. Providing a platform of live-streaming and in-person performers from all over the world, Icelandic audiences and beyond will gather from July 4th-12th for this exciting event. Valerie David, writer, performer and producer of the multi-award-winning global hit 'The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within', interviews three of the performers on their experience with this pandemic and how they are adapting, including her own show.

NBC has announced that is postponing the Golden Globes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to TV Line, the 2021 ceremony will now take place almost two months later, on Sunday, February 28.

Upright Citizens Brigade has announced that it plans to diversify its leadership, the New York Times reports.

Responding to real-time shifts in the marketplace, FOX, this season's #1 network among Adults 18-49, and the only network to experience year-to-year growth in the demo and Total Viewers, is announcing its Fall 2020 schedule.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) today announced the Nominees for The 24th Annual Webby Awards

As a lead-in to the highly anticipated special that brings back one of the most admired comedies in TV history, NBC and the Paley Center for Media are collaborating on “The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation,” scheduled to air Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

As a lead-in to the highly anticipated special that brings back one of the most admired comedies in TV history, NBC and the Paley Center for Media are collaborating on “The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation,” scheduled to air Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Five years after audiences said goodbye to one of the most beloved comedies in TV history, the fine citizens of Pawnee, Ind., are reuniting for NBC and Universal Television's all-original “A Parks and Recreation Special” set to air Thursday, April 30 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will offer an online Improv Class for adults and teens beginning May 2. In light of the social distancing order now in place, Dreamcatcher has restructured our class to accommodate a range of levels using the Zoom platform.

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the famed improvisational and sketch comedy training theater, has announced that it will close its theater and training facility in New York's Hell's Kitchen. 

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Actors Fund, the national human services organization for everyone in performing arts and entertainment, has teamed with SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley, to produce a daily online show, entitled Stars in The House.

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Amy Poehler, Ty Burrell, Rashida Jones and their 'Duncanville' castmates will conduct virtual table read to benefit Feeding America. The table read will take place on Friday, April 17 @ 3:00pm PT/6:00pm ET on the Animation Domination Youtube Channel!

 Tomorrow, Comcast will launch an early preview of the premium tier of Peacock, NBCUniversal's new ad-supported subscription streaming service, included at no additional cost for millions of Xfinity X1 and Flex customers across the country.

An expanded list of artists will appear in the a?oeOne World: Together At Homea?? global broadcast special, which will air across NBC, ABC, CBS and other global networks and platforms on Saturday, April 18 from 8-10 p.m. PT/ET.

FOX Entertainment has ordered a second season of the new animated series DUNCANVILLE, to air during the 2021-2022 season. From Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Amy Poehler and Emmy Award winners Mike and Julie Scully, DUNCANVILLE follows a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy with a rich fantasy life, and the people in his world.

Seth Meyers has revived his Really!?! segment during last night's at-home edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers. 

Christina Aguilera performs the song Loyal Brave True on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Jake talks about not being scared of the Coronavirus, mistaking a food allergy for bed bugs while on a press tour in NY, getting robbed in Hollywood, being arrested for something he didn't do, and his show 'Stumptown' on ABC.

Emily talks about making A Quiet Place Part II, why it wasn't scary shooting the monster scenes, her husband John Krasinski getting into finger weaving, and she reveals that she almost became a pop star.