Broadway ticket holders to get automatic Telecharge refund during coronavirus shutdown

“The thought of my husband dropping me off at the hospital, me getting checked in alone, getting the epidural shot alone, and not having his hand to hold terrifies me,” says Morgan Pederson, a 32-year-old woman from Queens, New York, who is planning to deliver her second child in June.Last week two New York hospitals, New York Presbyterian and Mount Sinai, announced that in the face of the coronavirus pandemic they would not allow partners or spouses in the labor and delivery ward or on the

LONDON — Major record companies and publishers are facing increasing pressure to do more to support musicians and songwriters who have seen their livelihoods wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic.

By David Robb

As millions of people in New York City suffer from the coronavirus and its devastating economic effects, one of the hardest-hit places has been the legendary Great White Way.

It is important to get reliable facts during the coronavirus outbreak - and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just made it easier than ever.

The COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund set up at long-running charitable organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to provide financial relief and services for entertainment professionals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and work shutdown has received a boost from some of the sector's most successful producers.

NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected

Gwyneth Paltrow shared a touching message with fans while practising social distancing amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Bosses at streaming giant Netflix are doing their bit to help those in the TV and film industry who have lost work because of the coronavirus pandemic with a $100 million (£86 million) support fund.

Following the announcement earlier in the day on Friday that Martin McDonagh's Hangmen had played its final Broadway performance while still in previews, a similar fate has met the eagerly anticipated revival of Edward Albee's masterwork of interdependent marital warfare, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Lead producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen confirmed late Friday night that the production, which was shut down March 12 as part of government-mandated safety measures to control

By David Robb

By Ted Johnson

No part of the economy is being hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than the hospitality sector, effectively eviscerating the incomes of people who work in bars, restaurants and live-entertainment venues.

Jennifer Lopez is living in luxury during her self-isolation period amid the coronavirus outbreak.

By Tom Grater