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Broadway has been dark for almost a year, and members of the entertainment industry have been desperate for news about when the arts might return in New York City and across the country. Today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is looking towards the future.
Chelsea Handler talks about living by herself in Canada, her cleaning lady’s very intimate relationship with her dogs and why she’s no longer crushing on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Damian Bazadona, the Co-Founder of TEDx Broadway, will be the featured guest lecturer at One Day University on Friday, December 11, 2020 beginning at 4:00pm EST.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference on Wednesday that New York expects to receive 170,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by December 15.
As coronavirus cases begin to increase nationwide, American Songwriting Award-Winner Ben Rauch (The Emoji Song) has teamed up with several theater and television stars to release the new single, 'Stay At Home' The song is now available on music platforms such as ITunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more.
Wednesday, November 25: Guests include Melissa McCarthy, The Original Cast of Saved By The Bell and musical guest Sheryl Crow pays tribute to Tom Petty. Thursday, November 26: Guests include Jerry Seinfeld, Bad Bunny and musical guest Bad Bunny.
On Thursday, November 12, Attorney Jim Mermigis and a group of 12 Off Broadway theaters and comedy club owners will argue that by allowing small venues with enhanced air filtration systems to open at 25% capacity, countless artists and theater professionals will be able to go back to work – enabling venues to earn revenue, so they can begin paying rent to landlords also hit hard by the pandemic – a move they say will also provide customers for the thousands of retail stores, restaurants and garages that surround their venues.
New York City's gyms, schools, restaurants and even bowling alleys are open – yet small independent theaters remain closed – with no planned reopening date proposed by city and state leaders.
Tri-Cities Opera (TCO): The 71-year-old opera company concluded its first annual TCO Next: A Virtual Vocal Competition in a streamed concert on Sunday, October 18th.
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced the virtual world premiere of Divaria Productions' original biopic opera Rival Queens on Thursday, November 12, at 8 p.m. at baystreet.org.
Voyage Theater Company/PARTS UNKNOWN Play Reading Series will present a staged reading via Zoom of THE DAY MY FATHER KILLED ME by Charlotte Boimare and Magali Solignat, translated by Amelia Parenteau, and directed by Lisa Rothe, Thursday, October 22 at 6pm. Please RSVP here.
'Masks & Musicals: Broadway Karaoke' is extended for the rest of the fall.The free show, produced by Thrapp Theatrics, lets people sing Broadway show tunes with a live pianist. It debuted in August 2020 to socially distanced crowd in Manhattan and has had a series of sold-out performances.
This fall the French Institute Alliance Française, New York's premier French-language center, will continue to present a line-up of thought-provoking cross-cultural virtual events, featuring an array of world-renowned artists, writers, thinkers, and presenters from across film, live music, theater, performance, animated storytelling, and more.