Broadway Producers Of ‘American Buffalo’ & ‘The Minutes’ Call COVID-19 Vaccine “Essential” To Planned Spring 2021 Reopenings

Also Read: Bettina Gilois, 'McFarland USA' and 'Bessie' Screenwriter, Dies at 58The following year, Redford hired Schwary as the sole producer for his directorial debut of “Ordinary People.” That film went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture for Schwary and Best Director for Redford, as well as the New York Film Critics Award, National Board of Review Best Picture Award and a Golden Globe Award.He again teamed with Pollack on “Absence of Malice,” the newspaper drama starring

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Obie Awards, Off Broadway’s most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratched amid nationwide upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.The Obies, presented by the American Theatre Wing and awards founder The Village Voice, will be hosted by comedian, actor and writer Cole Escola (Difficult People, Mozart in the Jungle).

Kanye West has revealed he contracted the coronavirus in February and spoke against a COVID-19 vaccine.Following the rapper’s Independence Day announcement that he would be running for the US presidency in 2020, Ye revealed to Forbes he’d contracted COVID-19 in February and insisted his tweet was not a publicity stunt.“Chills, shaking in the bed, taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I’m supposed to do to get over it,” West described his experiences with the illness.“I remember

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the production company behind series including Netflix’s Narcos and Apple TV+’s Stillwater, is shaking up its U.S. division with Nicolas Atlan taking over and Gene Stein exiting.The French company has handed oversight of its U.S.

were jailed for a string of burglaries back in June.

Taylor Swift’s fans believe she would make a great candidate for the presidency in 2020, Billboard reported today. On Saturday, many of the pop star’s fans took to their Twitter accounts to call for Taylor to become the president of the United States following Kanye West’s announcement that he was going to run.

Brad Paisley opened 2020's re-imagined Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC with a good dose of country, performing "American Saturday Night" live from the Grand Ole Opry."American Saturday Night," off of Paisley's 2009 album of the same name, set a feel-good tone for the night's program, which was hosted in New York City but featured musical performances from artists around the country.

Chrissy Teigen is not happy with American Airlines.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerProducer Tressa Azarel Smallwood of MegaMind Media has teamed with BET Networks on a new BET Her initiative for four female-centric original short films, which will be directed by prominent African American Hollywood stars Sheryl Lee Ralph (Sister Act 2), Kim Fields (Facts of Life), Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming to America) and Victoria Rowell (Dumb and Dumber).Shooting began this week in Maryland.

American Top 40, a show that would become a pop-culture classic, and that would turn many people (including me) on to popular music in general and the Billboard charts in particular.Casey Kasem kicked off that first countdown with this welcome: “Here we go with the top 40 hits of the nation this week on American Top 40 -- the best-selling and most-played songs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico.

"Like all good things, it happened in Las Vegas," says The Weeknd about how a random meeting between his manager and American Dad! writer Joel Hurwitz led to the singer co-writing both an episode and a song for the show, in which the Smith family kidnaps him. Here, The Weeknd, born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, explains why he's been a fervent fan of the animated series for years.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Industrial Media, which co-produces American Idol and makes TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé, has hired former Blumhouse exec Roland Wieshofer as Chief Financial Officer as it looks to ramp up its M&A activity.Wieshofer, who was previously CFO at the horror studio, will replace Scott Frosch who has served as the Company’s CFO and COO since its 2018 launch.

Laine Hardy, the 2019 winner of American Idol, says he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 but his symptoms are mild and he is recovering under home quarantine.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic“There is only before this moment,” says Adrienne Warren, star of Broadway’s Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, “and after this moment.”In a remarkable series of big, first steps into this new era of protest and pandemic, black theater artists in recent weeks have taken hold of a historic moment to demand a reckoning over racism within their industry.

Gabby Barrett has a lot to celebrate — and there will be pizza, Netflix and dessert involved!The 20-year-old singer released her highly anticipated debut album, Goldmine, on Friday. «It's definitely emotional,» the American Idol alum exclusively tells ET. «It's exciting mostly, but it also makes me feel so blessed and grateful for the journey that brought me to this place.

Gabby Barrett is on a long list of former competition singing show performers who have managed to turn reality TV appearances into stardom. The 20-year-old country singer placed third on “American Idol” in 2018 as an 18-year-old dreamer and has maintained the momentum, becoming the first solo female songstress since Carly Pearce in 2017 to reach No.